Abbi Hill, left, and Kyler Nurmsoo promote Right to Play Brock University in the Walker Complex this week.

A campus group is raising money and awareness this week for an organization that uses sport and play as a tool for development in impoverished countries.

The Brock chapter of Right to Play has displays in Walker Complex and MacKenzie Chown A block, where members are selling T-shirts, collecting change and distributing information about the humanitarian cause.

The effort commemorates Right to Play Week, which spreads the word about the movement and the 30-member group at Brock, said Kyler Nurmsoo, president and third-year Sport Management student.

Each week, more than 688,000 children take part in regular sport and play activities organized by Right to Play.

“It’s a way to let them be kids for a day,” said Nurmsoo, whose own involvement was inspired by Professor Laura Cousens’ Sport for Development course.

Right to Play has been present on campus for a while, he said. But it didn’t become an official group until the end of September.

Now “we’re spreading awareness on the Brock campus and looking to move into the community,” he said.