‘Give us playgrounds. We wish to play!’

Recreation has at all times mattered to people. It’s an integral a part of folks’s each day expertise and has influenced their outlooks on and understandings of the world they reside in. And the significance of recreation is past debate in the case of correct improvement of youngsters’s psychological well being. However alas! There are so few recreation centres in Dhaka.

These days giant buying centres have indoor amusement parks inside, however these are solely accessible for kids who come from rich backgrounds. These areas are an elusive dream for kids who come from low-income households. Personally, I don’t even know if these indoor video games have any constructive impact on the event of youngsters.

I not too long ago learnt from studies revealed within the media that 67% of youngsters would not have entry to a playground which is inside strolling distance from their home. Furthermore, 95% of the faculties in Dhaka would not have playgrounds inside their compound.

Typically these frustrations get to me. I’ve an urge to stroll as much as the coverage makers of our nation and ask them about their childhood. I wish to know whether or not they spent numerous time locked up in cages like we do, or did they really have the luxurious to swim within the rivers, chase dragonflies throughout a area and breathe in recent air.

Is it simply us who’re disadvantaged of playgrounds, which is meant to be a fundamental proper for kids of this nation? Is it even honest that we don’t get to be nearer to the greeneries of our lovely Bengal?

Who do I blame? Who do I ask for a clarification, or an answer? I have no idea.

Typically I take into consideration youngsters who reside on the outskirts of Dhaka and out of doors the capital, and a sense of deprivation washes over me. How free may their childhood be and the way a lot greeneries may they see! Right here I’m, caught within the cages of this concrete jungle.

There isn’t a place for us to even breathe on this metropolis, and I strongly really feel our households and colleges have an vital function to play right here.

Mother and father ought to discover time to take their youngsters to villages shut by in Dhaka for a day, or perhaps to vacation for a number of days within the mountains or the ocean. As a toddler, I wholeheartedly consider that small breaks from the town will convey us interior peace.

Faculties and different academic establishments ought to organize examine excursions extra ceaselessly. Not solely will this be a type of leisure for the youngsters of our technology, however it would additionally play an element in our psychological improvement.

Reporter’s Age: 17 District: Dhaka