This past weekend, Allendale Elementary in East Oakland revealed a newly-constructed playground, garden, and mural to the community. Allendale is the first of six Oakland public schools that will receive a new playground, thanks to Eat. Learn. Play., the foundation that Stephen and Ayesha Curry co-founded.
The other schools that will receive a new playground in Oakland are:
- Hoover Elementary
- Lockwood STEAM Academy
- Esperanza Elementary and Korematsu Discovery Academy (on the Stonehurst campus)
- Acorn Woodland Elementary and Encompass Academy (on the 81st Avenue campus)
The sixth site is still TBD.
Eat. Learn. Play. partnered with KABOOM!, Oakland Unified School District, The Bhusri Family, and others to remodel Allendale’s playground.
Momo Chang is a freelance journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the Oakland Voices Co-Director. Her work focuses on healthcare, immigration, education, Asian American communities, food and culture. She is a former staff writer at the Oakland Tribune. Momo has received journalism awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for investigative reporting and the Asian American Journalists Association, among others. Her work has appeared in the East Bay Express, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, and The New York Times. Momo is primarily a print journalist who also produces audio and visual stories for documentary film and radio. She is a Senior Contributing Editor for Hyphen and formerly the Content Manager at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).
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