December 6, 2024 Livable Cities Mini-Projects In 2024, HealthBridge and partners implemented eight innovative, community-led projects aimed at revitalizing public spaces and enhancing urban living in Vietnam, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Niger, and Ghana.
December 5, 2024 Literacy & Public Spaces in Ghana In Accra Ghana, the Mmofra Foundation, supported by HealthBridge’s Livable Cities program, is weaving a unique story of literacy and public space.
December 18, 2023 Exploring Kathmandu: A Sensory Adventure Imagine a journey where your senses guide you through the rich tapestry of history, where every step reveals a different element of the city.
October 23, 2023 The Success of Car Free Streets in Bangladesh Due to an unfortunate tendency to prioritize the comfort and safety of cars over children, there is abundant car parking in Dhaka, especially in residential buildings, but an extremely inadequate supply of parks, playing fields, and other outdoor spaces for children to play and those of other ages to gather and socialize.
August 30, 2022 Strengthening the Farmer-Consumer Link: Popularizing Farmers’ Markets in Dhaka On 18 June 2021, Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB) Trust opened its first farmers’ market in Dhaka as part of a project sponsored by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The project sought to increase low-income residents’ access to healthy and nutritious food grown without chemicals and to help farmers market their produce. An additional goal was to improve public space in Dhaka by converting a street used for dumping trash into a lively and attractive public space each Friday morning.
June 6, 2022 Cross-country learning for mobile playgrounds In crowded Asian cities, land is expensive and parks are scarce. Streets and roads are occupied by vehicles, whether moving, parked, or stuck in traffic. As a result, people have few opportunities for outdoor exercise, socializing, and recreation. Small children are particularly affected as parents are afraid to let them play in the streets and are often too busy to take them to the few places where they may be able to play outdoors as those spaces are frequently far from home.
June 1, 2022 Residents of Gittikhdan, Nagpur enjoy the benefits of a walking club Our partner in India, ESAF, formed a Walking Club at K.T. Nagar Park in Nagpur in 2017. The purpose was to promote physical activity and inform the community about non-communicable diseases.
December 8, 2021 Open Street Events in Guwahati increase walking and cycling Evangelical Social Action Forum organizes open street events on Sundays of each month with the support of local partner at different locations in Guwahati, Assam leading to increased walking and cycling.
November 27, 2021 Students portray obstacles on their school routes Students in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka recently drew pictures portraying the difficulties they face on the way to school.
August 29, 2020 Vietnam Government Commitment to Promote Cycling 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.