Active Living Toolkit
City Surfers have designed bike rides and a cookbook for you to enjoy.
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We're Concrete Safaris
Youth Transforming The World Starting In Their Own Backyards
We're Concrete Safaris
Concrete Safaris prepares youth in East Harlem & Beyond to lead healthy lives and shape their environment through outdoor education, play, exploration, and community engagement.
We're Concrete Safaris
Youth Transforming Their Environment Starting In Their Own Backyards
So this is what we do...
Concrete Safaris is a model for social change in which children learn how to alter the physical world around them by navigating New York City's infrastructure, becoming confident, experienced, effective leaders at an early age, committed to their health and environment. 7-24-year-olds have met with NYC Housing Authority officials to secure land for gardens and then grown thousands of pounds of produce, testified in favor of bike lanes in their neighborhood and then created bike routes for neighbors to enjoy, designed and led an annual obstacle race and active living fair for their community, and led workshops on health topics of their choosing.
City Surfers
Our outdoor, year-round classrooms foster each child's potential by giving them a place to dream and do within a safe and natural environment, which they help create.
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Green Exercise Days
Green Exercise Days are an outdoor field trip opportunity serving third graders in NYC School District 4. Register your classes for four seasonal trips this school year.
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NYC youth create places for their communities to play and learn outdoors.
Upper Manhattan children suffer from some of the highest rates of obesity and related diseases in NYC. At Concrete Safaris, children as young as age 7 learn to ask their community how they would like to address this serious epidemic by improving how the spaces around their homes and schools are used. They have transformed over a half-acre of NYC Housing Authority property into children's gardens, testified in support of neighborhood bike lanes, created bike maps for their neighbors to use and taught cycling lessons, and designed an annual obstacle course race and carnival for children and adults.
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JungleGym 2018 Plans Are In The Works
We'll let you know where and when in 2018. In the meantime, get outside and active with friends, family, or solo to prepare your mind and body for the challenges. Proceeds will provide two hundred 7-17-year-olds from Upper Manhattan with 5-day/week, year-round, after school and summer programming in the next five years, beginning in East Harlem and adding a second major site near Inwood Hill Park. With your support, we can ensure that children living in Upper Manhattan have access to high-quality, outdoor play and education in their neighborhoods and parks.