How do you bring electricity and light to children who live half their lives in complete darkness, and their entire lives in abject poverty? Empower Playgrounds is a nonprofit that has come up with an ...

If only we could use kids to fuel our homes and cars so they’d be useful for something. Wait, that came out wrong. But for Empower Playgrounds, it came out RIGHT: A non-profit called Empower ...

Most children in Essam, Ghana, had never seen a merry-go-round until a Brigham Young University-led team arrived to install the curious device in their village. For ...

Not too long ago a meme was circulating around social media – it was a photo of an old rusted and broken playground apparatus – which my daughter Kaitlyn referred to as the “death trap merry-go-round.

It had been a while since I took my kids to Riverside Park, so when we went last week, I wondered if the metal merry-go-round was still in motion. Sure enough, it was. Most of these old school, ...

California doesn’t make playgrounds like it used to. Fifteen years after the state legislated compliance with national safety standards for new and renovated public playgrounds, I can take the Three ...

Swings, slides, seesaws and merry-go-rounds — elementary students in the Iowa City Community School District play on this equipment nearly every day. In recent months, district leaders have considered ...