Retoy
Imagine a library. Replace the books with lots of sustainable toys. Invite children and parents, and let them play as much as they want without spending a dime. Offer them the opportunity to borrow toys and to submit old for recycling or lending. Teach them about children's rights and sustainable development. There you have Retoy – a toy library that teaches children and parents about the environment, sustainable consumption and global interdependence – in a fun and rewarding way. A place where children meet beyond the social boundaries and interact through play, toys and learning.
Retoy will contribute to the rights of the child and to a greater awareness of our ability to create a more sustainable future. All children are welcomed at Retoy, regardless of social or physical conditions, to play, learn and interact. Retoy offers kids new patterns of consumption by enabling them to submit old toys and borrow new ones in the same time as they learn about sustainability, global context and children's rights.
Retoy is currently, together with the Stockholm library and UNICEF, creating the first toy library. Soledad Piñero Misa is the founder of Retoy. She has a long history of involvement in social issues. Examples of previous assignments are as lecturer and consultant in leadership and human rights through her company Diferencia, secretary General of LSU, the Swedish Council of Youth Organizations, head of office for Youth Against Racism, and president of the Red Cross Refuge Centre.
Playing for a better world
Retoy’s vision is a world there everybody consumes sustainably and shows solidarity with their fellow human beings and nature, both locally and globally.
Retoy creates joyful places where children and their parents learn about sustainability in both ecological and social perspectives. This is happen through toy libraries where children can play without any social boundaries, borrow durable and educational toys, hand in their old toys for recycling and learning about children's rights.
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