Play Time!!

We Have A New Playground!!! 

Back in June I wrote a small grant to USAID to request funding for a playground for our center. We have about 20 students at our center and absolutely no play equipment of any kind for the children to engage with, not even a soccer ball.  During our "recess" time kids would wander around and pick on and bully each other and it really wasn't a fun break time for most kiddos. So my mudeera and I saw the need for a playground.

But where to put it?? Our center is already small, and the land is on a hill, and there isn't much available land around the center to intall a playgound. But finally we decided on a small 13x7 meter area behind our center which was part of the center's property.

Area Behind the Center

After play site was chosen and the grant was approved, the land was then cleaned up, cleared and prepared for installation of the playground.

Next, time to dig the foundations for the play equipment.

Then the exciting day, months later, when the company we contracted with showed up to install the play equipment.

Then the happy day when everything was done and done. The kids were more than ready to swing, slide and climb, and of course SMILE. Lots of smiles!

AHAMDULILAH!!

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