KABOOM!
Last Wednesday Holly Park, one of Mercy Housing’s properties was having its initial KABOOM! day. KABOOM! is an awesome organization that partners with companies to build playgrounds for low -income communities. What makes this even cooler is that on this initial planning day, we rouvded-up all the kids who were available and had them draw their dream playground. They then present their drawings to the adults. After that the adults meet and get into committees to start making decisions like what color the body of the playground should be, avd how to deal with safety etc.
I was mainly hanging out with the playground designers (the kids) while their parents were meeting, but it just seemed like a really awesome process that involves the most important people.
In October, there will be 2 prep days, and then later in the month 200 volunteers will come together and build the entire playground. I wish I could be around for that, but I’m so pumped for the Holly Park community.