From the very first days of Project Rayenda, we’ve been playing with children at Save the Children “Safe Spaces.” These safe, unstructured play areas sited at local schools provide psycho-social support to children following a natural disaster. As the government and NGOs push to get kids back in school, we’ve been working with Save the Children on a way to transition the benefits of the Safe Space into a more permanent structure at local schools.
HODR volunteers have been hard at work on a playground design which can be built at existing Safe Space locations. As a result, Save the Children would like to collaborate with HODR on 5 of these playground projects! The remote rural communities here have never had playground equipment before, and are incredibly excited to start working with us on the swings, monkey bars, and jungle gyms we have planned!
In order to fulfill our commitment to Save the Children, we will extend our project end date to Thursday, 17 April, 2008. As our work extends into April, we will continue to work on a mix of shelter, community space, and playground projects.
There’s still time to join us in Bangladesh! We hope to see you in Rayenda soon.
Marc Young
Operations Director
Hands On Disaster Response
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