Children who live at St. Vincent de Paul were encouraged to draw pictures of what their dream playgrounds would look like when representatives from KaBOOM! and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group visited the Open Hand Kitchen last Tuesday afternoon. Their drawings will be incorporated into the final design for a new community playground to be built on May 31 at SVDP.
Design Day also marked the first meeting of the playground planning committee that will work for the next seven weeks to plan and prepare for the construction of the new playground.
The project is part of Let’s Play, a community partnership led by Dr Pepper Snapple Group to get kids and families active nationwide. The first Let’s Play initiative is a $15 million, three-year commitment to KaBOOM! to build or fix up 2,000 playgrounds by the end of 2013, benefitting an estimated five million children across North America. Via Let’s Play grants and projects through 2012, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and KaBOOM! built or improved 1,154 playgrounds, benefitting an estimated 2.8 million children during the lifetime of the playgrounds. Dr Pepper Snapple Snapple Group is also a member of the leadership circle within the KaBOOM! National Partner Program.
The new playground will provide hundreds of children in the Louisville community with a safe place to play. About 60 children from formerly homeless families live on the SVDP campus, and the new playground will also serve children through SVDP’s future Family Success Center, which will provide year-round programs for at-rish children in the surrounding neighborhood.
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