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Mapping and Needs Analysis of Accessibility of Recreational Opportunities for Kids Grade 1-3 in 10 Different Areas of Gothenburg SUMMARY Mapping and Needs Analysis of accessibility of recreational opportunities for kids grade 1-3 in 10 different areas of Gothenburg SUMMARY Team & Acknowledgement 3 1. INTRODUCTION 4 2. METHODOLOGY 5 2.1 Initial selection 5 2.1.1 Choice of target group 5 2.1.2 Geographical choice of neighborhoods/Vulnerability 6 2.1.3 Opportunities for recreation - Activities and public recreation areas 8 2.2 Four steps 9 2.2.1 Step 1 – Training the research team 9 2.2.2 Step 2 – Pre Field 9 2.2.3 Step 3 - Field 11 2.2.4 Step 4 - Data analysis 12 3.NEIGHBORHOOD DATA 13 3.1. Majorna-Linné, Karl Johans torg 14 3.2. Angered, Rannebergen, Södra 15 3.3. Östra Göteborg, Bergsjön Östra 16 3.4. Lundby, Wieselgrensplatsen 17 3.5. Norra Hisingen, Backa Röd 18 3.6. Västra Hisingen, Biskopsgården, N 19 3.7. Askim-Frölunda-Högsbo, Ruddalen 20 3.8. Västra Göteborg, Opaltorget, N 21 3.9. Västra Göteborg, Ängås 22 3.10. Västra Göteborg, Långedrag 23 4. QUALITATIVE FINDINGS 24 4.1 Availability and place 24 4.2 Segregation 24 4.3 Communication & Language 25 4.4 Kids engagement 25 4.5 MAP & BLOG 26 5. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS 27 5.1 Total Activities and Neighborhood 27 5.2 Population and activities 28 5.3 Availability of vacancy in activities 28 5.4 Foreign background x Social Vulnerability 29 5.5 Foreign Background and opportunities of activity 30 6. CONCLUSION 31 7. REFERENCES 34 7.1 Bibliographic references 34 7.2 - Specific Information references for each neighborhood 36 8.ATTACHMENTS 39 8.1 Complete list of activities & public recreation areas 39 Team & Acknowledgement Delmos (Delegation mot Segregation) opened the possibility to various organisations from civil society to do a mapping and need analysis of the segregation in our field. ● Elin Lutke from Cirkus Unik is responsible for coordinating the research. ● Monica Picavea, from Oficina da Sustentabilidade planned and directed the research. ● Sabina Antonsson and Alexandra Diamand from Onyx Kultur- produktion, realized the quantitative and qualitative research in the field. ● Isabela Maria Gomes de Menezes from Oficina da Sustentabili- dade is responsible for the map and the final blog. ● Lena Lutke from Cirkus Unik: revision of the text. ● Marçal Morell from Marxal is responsible for the final Design. ● Louisa Lundgren from Cirkus Unik och Djelal Axoyson from Korredo for taking care of the administration and economy of the projekt. Special thanks to: ● All organisations that generously shared their information. ● Kulturskolan in Gothenburg for sharing valuable information. ● Delmos for giving us this possibility to base our jobb on even more knowledge about segregation in Gothenburg. ● All schools and Fritids. DELMOS REPORT 3 1. INTRODUCTION Cirkus Unik propose this research to Delmos because we believe, and there are studies that prove, that free time- activities of sports and arts, positively affect the development of children and pro- mote a positive action against segregation. Our hypothesis was that there are less opportunities/availability to participate in any kind of sports or arts activities for children age 7-9 from vulnerable areas in Gothenburg. The municipality of Gothenburg wrote a very relevant report about Segregation in Gothenburg. According to this report, from Equal Göteborg, 2017: “Children’s recreational life is important for creating cohesion by strengthening integration and promoting health and trust. Leisure life is an important component in strengthening the social, emotional, mental and motor conditions of chil- dren. Not least, active leisure, with which children are satisfied, is important because it creates the conditions for children to be more physically active. It is when children’s physical activity usually decreases and children have poor mental health. Both aspects of health can be improved if children have the opportunity to move, play and play sports. It is therefore important that all children have safe, accessible outdoor environments, activities and other recreational activities. “(P.108, 2017) “The physical and mental health of children is improved if they are given opportunities for move- ment, play and sport.” WHO recommends that children between the ages of 5 and 17 be physically active at moderate to high intensity levels, at least 60 minutes per day. “(Page 109) At the same time, we see a high index of people with foreign population background and an increase of segregation. The city of Gothenburg needs to include everyone in the society and work against segregation. Considering this topic and Cirkus Unik´s vision to offer all kids the same opportunities, independent of their socio-economical or cultural background, we would like to understand better how the oppor- tunities are divided in the city. We believe that recreational activities can make a difference in kids´ and neighborhoods´ devel- opment so that they have more opportunities. We propose to map the sports, culture activities and public recreational areas in 10 neighborhoods of Gothenburg, areas where Cirkus Unik already has collaborations and continuous activities. This research wants to look at and try to understand how the cultural and sports activities in these neighborhoods are distributed. At first we thought about researching cultural and sports activities only. However when we got to the field, we understood that the public recreational areas also are relevant and represents free opportunities for activities. Some children told us that they practiced group sports with other friends in the neighborhood, organized by themselves, in the public areas. The general information, raised by the Activer Healthy Kids report, together with the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow), University of Gothenburg and Karolinska Institute, in 2016, shows that phys- ical activity in general among children and youths is low and sedentary behavior too high for almost all age groups investigated in the Sweden Report Card 2016. In addition to these data, it can be observed that the athletic, recreational and cultural activities of the the free time do not reach all children, and those who are not enrolled with the Fritids groups for instance, may not have any activities in their neighborhoods available for their development at all, neither physical nor psychic. 9 out of 10 neighborhoods in this research were chosen due to the area but also because of their characteristics. Cirkus Unik usually works where more kids have a need of the opportunity of free activities. DELMOS REPORT // 1. INTRODUCTION 4 2. METHODOLOGY 2.1 Initial selection The methodology of this research and diagnosis is based on priority issues related to the lack of physical and cultural opportunities of activities available in exposed areas of Gothenburg.Three important phases and necessary choices has been made for this research: 1. The target group 2. Geographical choice of neighborhoods 3. The definition of opportunities for recreation 2.1.1 Choice of target group The target group, children age 7-9, were chosen because we saw that in the research Equal Gothenburg made this target group was missing. Their emphasis was on 9th grade students. This is also the age-group and target group that Cirkus Unik are focusing on in their day to day work. Cirkus Unik believe that it is important to meet with kids from an early age to give them good opportunities in regards to their life choices and future. In this re- search the focus has been on collecting data about number of pupils in grade 1 to 3 in the schools, background/nationality of the pupils, amount of Fritids groups in the schools and the total amount of pupils from grade 1 to 3 attending these Fritids groups. Definition- Fritids is a voluntary activity free of charge organized by the schools and offered to children aged 7-9 during a couple of hours after regular school time. DELMOS REPORT // 2.METHODOLOGY 5 2.1.2 Geographical choice of neighborhoods/Vulnerability Cirkus Unik is working in and has focused on schools in some of the most vulnerable areas in Gothenburg according to The Police report. These areas are of course especial- ly interesting to work in for any organization that wants to make a contribution in the struggle against segregation in our society. Examples of areas considered highly vulnerable are Västra Göteborg, Ängås and Opal- torget; Västra Hisingen, Biskopsgården; Norra Hisingen, Backa Röd; och Östra Göte- borg, Bergsjön. In all of these areas Cirkus Unik is collaborating with schools and fritids groups. Cirkus Unik organizes opportunities for kids from different (socio-economical and cul- tural) backgrounds to meet as these opportunities currently are rare. As we believe that we should not only “integrate” suburbs with the center but also the center with the sub- urbs, we also work in areas that are not listed as vulnerable by the police. We decided to do our research in 10 areas of the city, based on 9 areas where Cirkus Unik has collaboration and partnership with the local school. This makes it ideal to use as a starting point from where to search activities and public recreation areas. The only school that we do not have regular and weekly partnership with is Långedrag, Västra Göteborg, which we chose as a control group. It is an area with one of the highest average incomes in the city according to SCB 2017. In every area of Gothenburg we chose at least one school except in Centrum and Örgry- te-Härlanda, that are the more privileged areas of Gothenburg. Another exception was Västra Göteborg where we chose three schools, two that we have partnership with in Tynnered, a highly vulnerable area and one in Långedrag, a privileged area of Gothen- burg. We were particularly interested in Västra Göteborg because it shows clear internal inequalities. There are areas with varied cultural, social, and economic background in this research, as we were interested to understand if there were any differences regarding the opportu- nities depending on different characteristics of the neighborhoods.
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