The Playbus is a vehicle moving everywhere with games and toys to promote the right to play. Transforming, wherever it is going, the daily used materials into recreational tools, involving children, youths, and adult from 2 to 99 years old.
EducAid and Palestinian National Theater have newly launched a project entitled “Places & Spaces”, co-funded by Europeans Union, which will create a Playbuses and eco-playbuses teams’ in East Jerusalem and in camps located behind the segregation Israeli wall bordering Jerusalem. The aim of the activities, through the universal play language, is to put them in condition to talk, to know each other, to re-discover themselves as parts of the same culture, of the same people.
The street is normally occupied by cars, and all the life is focused on the adults’ needs, but in the same time the children are the ones spending most of their time in the street, forced to adapt themselves to the adults’ choices.
When the Playbus arrives to the designated location, four to six educators, who are trained by an Italian expert from EducAid, will unload all the games and toys from the bus and arrange them within the designated space. Children will naturally be attracted to come and play as our educators will start playing and inviting all the children to play. There are many games suitable to youth and adults as well so parents, family members and neighbors can enjoy and have a good time as well.
In Palestinian refugee camps the idea is to create, through the playing, open spaces that anyone can join, where it is possible to challenge the daily life full of frustration, aggressive relations, and asymmetric relations between children and adults. The idea is to transform street corners to places where the children can play an active role, experiencing the responsibility to lead the game.
With the Playbus interventions we try to demonstrate how, with simple tools, it is possible to transform the place where people spend their daily life creating new chances of meeting and exchanging for the whole community. The play becomes not only a resistance way, but a resilience way for the Palestinian youths, a new way to play to image their own future. prova provaPlaces & Spaces. Socio-Educative Support for the Children and Youths in East Jerusalem, Shufat Camp, Qalandia Camp, Aida Camp, Al ‘Azza Camp
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