Online Tools Let Playground Builder KaBOOM">KaBOOM Reach Overseas
04 November 2010
Children at a KaBOOM">KaBOOM playground in Washington
DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.
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I'm Doug Johnson.
This week we play new music from Taylor Swift …
And, answer a question about Veterans Day …
But first, a report on a group that has built hundreds of playgrounds in America and how it is now reaching beyond those borders.
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KaBOOM
DOUG JOHNSON: Back in nineteen ninety-five, Darrell Hammond read a tragic story in the newspaper about two children in a poor area of Washington, D.C. They had been playing in an old car because they had nowhere else to play. They got stuck inside and died from a lack of air.
Mr. Hammond was struck by the tragedy. Soon after, he and his friend Dawn Hutchinson established a non-profit group to build community playgrounds across America. The first went up that same year in Washington. In the fifteen years since, KaBOOM has built almost two thousand community playgrounds. But KaBOOM’s playground plans are not just for America. Faith Lapidus has more.
FAITH LAPIDUS: Mark White built his first non-American playground in Poland. He is known in that country as “Pan Plac Zabaw” or Mr. Playground. The project took place at an orphanage, a large housing center for children without parents. Mark White says the playground brought the wider community together. Families came to play. Orphaned children made friends with children they had never had the chance to play with before.
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