In South Africa, BULLETPROOF glass playgrounds will be built for young victims of gang shootings.
Safe playgrounds will feature facial popularity and panic buttons to keep violent gangsters away.
As heavily armed criminals rampage through the streets of South Africa, young people become “collateral damage” in the struggle for territory.
Innocent young people themselves were trapped under rebel bullets in the middle of townships as the country struggles with gun violence.
According to one study, over the past 20 years, almost a fraction of young people with gunshot wounds in Cape Town’s hospitals have been caught in the crossfire.
Most schools install bulletproof fences around their fences, while teachers ask students to stand under desks as soon as the first shots are fired.
But children still don’t leave school territory when they walk around the house or go to playgrounds.
To combat this problem, Gun Free SA, an NGO that fights against gun violence, presented its prototype of the Bulletproof Park project.
Concept photos show a bulletproof glass die fitted with panic buttons and a hotline for police.
Around 24 youngsters will play safely on the swings, slides and sandboxes, under the supervision of security cameras.
Admission will be made through parents and only those registered in the facial popularity formula will have access.
GFSA Director Adele Kirsten said: “We have been campaigning for 25 years to remove the root cause of this problem, which is guns on the streets; Things have gotten worse, and we are plagued by gang violence.
“Bulletproof Park is a pretty outrageous solution to a shocking problem, but until the police remove the illegal guns and destroy them, we want to act to bring about genuine change. “
The solar-powered playground will open for the first time in Cape Town’s Mitchell’s Plain neighborhood, where many child deaths have been reported.
The cost of building the project is estimated at £425,000, a small value for children’s lives.
By comparison, medical care for gunshot wounds amounted to around £260 million in 2014 alone.
For young people going to and from school, the NGO also offers bulletproof vests.
Kirsten added: “The simplest, most viable and practical solution is a physically more physically powerful formula to get guns off the streets and destroy them, but until then we want to act to keep our young people safe. “
The NGO said it was “outrageous” to have had to design such parks, but said the plans would be submitted to the city of Cape Town for approval later this year.
Cape Flats Safety Forum President Abie Isaacs expressed support for the project, saying, “Communities are rife with gang violence and many parents fear their children could be hit by a gang bullet.
“We welcome the proposals because we believe that parks deserve to be a safe area for young people and so far our parks have become hotbeds where gangs can develop their activities. “
Armed bandits compete for drugs and land in impoverished municipalities where young people have nowhere to play safely.
Criminologist Guy Lamb said: “Considering the spaces in the municipality where these things happen, the houses are small, so a lot of young people play in the streets because they don’t have a garden.
“Gangsters shoot randomly and savagely to get young people caught in the crossfire. “
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Of those, 63 were shot in a shootout and another 30 went straight to the morgue.
The spokesperson for the Eastern Cape Department of Education, Malibongwe Mtima, showed the statistics and said they would spend a further £3 million to beef up security.
Gun Free SA said: “In the year 2022/3, some 11,300 more people were killed with firearms, 10% of which were gang-related, and many young people were victims of stray bullets. “
The latest victim of the horrific gang crossfire, 16-year-old Zamawushe Momoti, was shot dead Friday outside his school when a bullet hit him in the face.
She stumbled out of the gates of Belgravia High School in Cape Town and died in a pool of blood as the shooting raged.
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