Playgrounds by People4People
The trust fund People4people believes that the fundamental right of each child is uninhibited playtime! The happiness derived from zipping down a slide, climbing up a jungle gym and bopping around on a seesaw does not need an explanation or a description.
In India there are millions of children and yet, paradoxically, not enough play spaces or areas for them. The richer children have playgrounds at school, in their neighbourhoods, at the clubs they visit. The poorer children are content with sandpits at construction sites or nothing at all. The poorest children in India go to government schools-free education but with limited resources and no play equipment for children. Interestingly many of these government schools have vast areas of unutilised land surrounding the school building.
The trust aims to put up playgrounds for use by children from poorer localities. Thus far People4people has put up more than 595+ playgrounds in government schools, mainly in the Whitefield/Hoskote area, including one in a village school in Tamil Nadu destroyed by the Tsunami. When they put up their first playground in the Thubarahally government school in Whitefield the joyous kids were on the slide even before the paint on it dried! The sparkle in their eyes made the effort worthwhile. And the reaction has been duplicated at every playground that has been put up.
Process of identifying beneficiary schools
The main parametres are:
- Genuine need for play equipment in the school and lack of internal resource to fulfil that need;
- Commitment of the school to provide fun-filled environment for the kids;
- Commitment of the school to maintain the play equipment;
- For operational and monitoring reasons, we identify and select schools in and around Bengaluru and nearby districts. However, in the recent past, we have installed play equipment in Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Telangana. So, geography is not a very strict criterion.
- After we receive requests from schools for play equipment, our team visits the school for on-ground assessment to validate the needs. Wherever, it is not possible for field visit, we rely on local NGO partner’s assessment.
Procurement of Playground Equipment
Playground equipment vendors are selected based on technical and financial evaluation of their product, their track record, costs and ability to undertake the entire responsibility from design through completion and commissioning.
Contact us for setting up playground in your school Whether you are a headmaster / headmistress, or a teacher or even a member of the parent teacher association or a local civil society/ NGO leader, or someone who studied in one of those schools which still doesn’t have playground equipment, you may approach P4P with your request to set up one. Please Contact Us by fill and submitting the Form to enable us to reach out to you.
List of Schools where Playgrounds are Installed by People4People
Sl.No.
School Name
District/City
State
Month of
Installation
Year of
Installation
31
Bengaluru (Rural)
Karnataka
June
2009
25
Bengaluru (Rural)
Karnataka
September
2008
14
Bengaluru
Karnataka
October
2007
13
Bengaluru
Karnataka
August
2007