Kensington has seen their pools and Playstreets shut down this summer due to concerns of violence. Parks and Rec, along with organizers and neighbors, are working together to create change.
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After 19 years, Kensington mom Yabira Valentin is ready to leave the neighborhood. As she sat on new chairs at Scanlon Pool, her eyes kept drifting to her 13-year-old son wading in the shallow end of the pool.But after finding out that Scanlon pool is free and recently renovated, she decided to give it a shot and bring her son. A nurse, she has Mondays and Tuesdays off. As the temperatures continue to rise day after day, the clear blue pool is a nice reprieve for the mom of one.
Walk into the playground, though, and you’ll find an oasis of music, free food, and face painting. It could be any other park in the city, and you would never know what was happening outside the fun zone if you didn’t have to walk through it to get there. It’s no secret that Kensington, a deeply multicultural and community-oriented section of Philadelphia, has a negative reputation. Many believe that the program shutdowns only sustain the preconceived ideas of the neighborhood.
Community organizers, who are deeply rooted in the Kensington neighborhood on a daily basis, agree that if the city doesn’t like the way the kids are acting, it needs to invest in their livelihoods and quality of life.
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