Growing up in Cities

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Growing up in Cities
Saida project
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Growing up in Cities.

• How do young people use their local environment?
• How is their use of the environment integrated
  into the daily routines of their lives?
• How do they feel about the places and community
  life around them?
• Which places do they particularly value?
  Particularly avoid?
• What changes do they observe in their community?
• What changes do they anticipate?
• What are their own ideas for improving their
  environment?

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The growing up in Cities project has three phases

• Networking
• Research
• Action

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Study Center.

• Overcrowded living quarters make study at home
  difficult
• Illiteracy makes it difficult for some parent to
  assist children with studies.
• Resources such as books and computers are not
  available to most children.

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Greening.

• There is a lack of plants and green spaces in the
  old city.
• Almost every one of the childrens drawings
  depicted flowers, trees and green spaces
  prominently as desirable elements in their
  environment.
• Previous experiences in introducing plants have
  been very well received by residents.
• The old city previously had more extensive
  greenery than exists today, including rooftop
  gardens.

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Play space.

• Children identified the lack of play space as a
  key issue.
• Many parents discourage children from playing in
  the street and alley areas.
• The one playground in the old city was badly
  damaged and remains in disrepair.

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Trash collection.

• Children repeatedly identified trash as a key
  issue.
• A number of children referred to the place where
  they live as the street with all the trash
• Commercial areas accumulate large amounts of
  trash at the end of the day, and trash bin in
  residential areas often overflow.

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Child labor.

• Participation of boys was limited due to the high
  incidence of child labor in the old city.
• Working children provide needed income for their
  families.

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Children are the flowers of any
country,those flowersare the fruit of
tomorrow,you have to take good care of
themotherwise there will be no
harvest. Amilcar Cabral
Guinea-Bissau 1970.