All week I have been hearing wonderful news about Kids in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. How they now have a safe and healthy place to play thanks to teamwork between Brad Pitt’s Make it Right Foundation and the Play Green Initiative. This last Wednesday, Make it Right’s 1-year anniversary, the playground was dedicated to the children of the neighborhood.
I think this is wonderful news because Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic damage to the Lower Ninth Ward in 2005, not a single playground had been built. Now this new $500,000 eco-friendly playground was made possible thanks largely to donations of equipment, landscaping and labor.
Reports that I have been reading say this project, the Lower Ninth Ward is at the present the home to the greenest, most technologically advanced playground in the country. This is the first type of playground in North America.