For years, HealthBridge has worked closely with the local government of Hoi An, a small city in central Vietnam, to improve public spaces. More recently, our work has focused on promoting cycling and further reducing the use of motorized vehicles. Cars are already banned in the old quarter and motorbikes limited to certain periods of the day. The work was further enhanced by being awarded a grant from the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) to work on cycling.

WBB, with support from UN-Habitat & Dhaka North City Corporation worked with a low-income community in Dhaka to design six public spaces using the computer game Minecraft.

The project, lead by Cidade Ativa, aimed to transform a well-used public staircase into a safer, more accessible public space.

In 2018, HealthBridge and partners won a challenge to make the city of Da Nang more livable for its most disadvantaged populations. Responding to the Da Nang Social Cohesion Challenge, the consortium of HealthBridge, Think Playground (Vietnam) and Playground Ideas (Australia), proposed to revitalize a public space in Da Nang city by transforming a dumpsite into a neighbourhood park.

A new report from Evangelical Social Action Forum (ESAF) and HealthBridge Foundation of Canada shares the results of a walkability study in Nagpur, India.

Livable Cities and Think Playgrounds transform an underused space into one where children can run and play.

The HealthBridge Vietnam team helped the coastal city of Hoi An develop a Parks Master Plan that included development of 79 new parks by 2020.

On Saturday evenings, a free mobile playground is set up for children in the old quarter of Ha Noi.