(ATR)Right To Play has a lot of projects in store for the coming year including some that will take place during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Johann Koss, president and CEO of Right To Play International, spoke with Around the Rings this week to discuss the organization's mission and road ahead as its members plan projects all over the world.
Right To Play is an organization that uses power of sport to educate and empower children in disadvantaged areas of the world.
Prior to founding Right To Play in 2000, Koss competed at an Olympic level in speed skating.
At the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics, he took home three gold medals for Norway.
Koss said that leading Right To Play International has afforded him an opportunity to use sport ways he never thought possible.
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