Playground Access for Reimagining Community and Sustainability
Every Kid Deserves a Playground!
Join us in urging LAUSD and the city of Los Angeles to open Alta Loma Elementary playground and other school playgrounds on the weekends as community parks.
In the neighborhoods surrounding Alta Loma Elementary, children don't get to play in parks. Instead, families set up kiddie pools between their cars so their kids can cool down on hot summer days. Lack of exercise and time outdoors has negative effects on the physical and mental health of all these children. With your help, we hope to turn that around.
Right now, these communities lack safe park space close to their homes. Most children have to walk over a mile to get to the nearest playground, crossing bustling traffic corridors. With many of their guardians working well into the weekends, sometimes they even have to do this alone -- in a hundred degree weather. It's just not safe.
Mid-City, amongst many other LA neighborhoods, needs a local park that encourages exercise and provides physical space for the community to gather, grow, and prosper. Elementary school playgrounds such as the one at Alta Loma are a perfect solution for community parks.
Ready to Help’s Park and Open Spaces campaign aims to bring more public parks and greenspace to areas in Los Angeles that have been environmentally underserved.
Reviving parks and greenspaces will connect communities to their natural environment, improving the creativity, mental health, and physical health of those who live nearby. They offer people and families a place to connect, giving them a sense of ownership and pride in their neighborhoods.
The campaign will organize and educate communities not just on how to acquire land and build parks, but also how environmental justice issues have historically burdened their area and how sustainability will help their neighborhoods flourish for years to come.
Our short term goals involve getting local schools to open as parks for community members outside of school hours. We are working with stakeholders of several local schools.