The Bogota Free Zone is one of the main bases for the city's commerce, located in Fontibón, a town that is located to the west of the Colombian capital. The projections of the DANE 2008 the population of the Free Zone has 37,602 inhabitants in its totality, where 47% of these are children and young people, and the remaining percentage are Adults, who daily go to work leaving their children in the school. Taking into account that the school day is, commonly, from the morning until about the middle of the afternoon. Young people and infants are left alone for part of the day, in their respective homes as there are no recreational spaces where they can develop physical activities or games with others of the same age, and although there are parks or places for them to go out to recreate, they are not They are neither safe nor suitable for children and young people.
The Free Trade Zone does not have areas suitable for children's use and with the percentages set out above, there is a latent need in that the youngest require a place of recreation for the free time that they have when their managers are away from home.
Bogotá has six toy libraries in total. Spaces dedicated to minors between 0 and 5 years old, where professionals teach children the strengthening of skills with practical and social workshops. They have 9 categories: Visual spatial, mathematical logic, musical, verbal, corporal, intrapersonal, interpersonal, naturalistic and spiritual.
Returning to the previous paragraph, there is no toy library in Bogotá available to the public in the Free Zone, not because of its location or because of the possibility of being in a recreational space without your companion.
One of the tasks we face today is the creation of a social conscience that recovers and rescues play and creative activity in children, young people and adults. We must create dynamic alternatives, implement recreational, artistic, creative activities in the community context, it is from these proposals made within a new space called LUDOTECA: it emerges as a vehicle for reviving the game within families and for animation in the neighborhood, promoting communication. An alternative to help ease problems, difficulties and conflicts is through play.
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