Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rhiannon on August 12, 2018, 09:47:11 AM
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How lovely is this?
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/aug/12/horse-power-giving-kids-the-ride-of-their-life-brixton-pony-club
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Agreed.
Right on so many levels.
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Probably won't last:
https://tinyurl.com/y7fm3rej
https://tinyurl.com/ya5qcxpt
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How lovely is this?
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/aug/12/horse-power-giving-kids-the-ride-of-their-life-brixton-pony-club
Thank you so much for posting that link. That's the sort of thing that should be on the main news, so that others can be inspired and start similar projects.
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Thank you so much for posting that link. That's the sort of thing that should be on the main news, so that others can be inspired and start similar projects.
I have to admit that the last paragraph made me cry.
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Love the link, Rhi. Made me think about when I was a young teacher, teaching in a very poor part of Hull in the sixties. We organised day trips every summer to various places. I very clearly remember several 10 year old children on the coach, pointing to a field as we passed, and discussing if that was a herd of cows they had seen. I also remember stopping on the North Yorkshire Moors, and the children thinking that we were surrounded by mountains. Many had never been in the countryside before. The highlight of any trip we did was to go to a shop before we left so that they could spend the meagre amount of money they had with them on small gifts for mam, or dad or their uncle or big sister.
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I have to admit that the last paragraph made me cry.
Yes, me too. I almost mentioned it!
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I know about the Ebony Riding Club, a relative of mine was involved with it a few years ago (think it was at a different site then), she now helps at somewhere similar but closer & all my local family support it. It's a very worthwhile project, horses are lovely animals (I don't understand how anyone could deliberately hurt them as shown in the links Shaker posted).
Thanks for posting that heartwarming article Rhiannon (it's given me an idea).
It's true that many children and young people from inner cities all over the country have never seen anything outside of blocks of concrete, amazing considering there are green spaces not far away, even just a bus ride, but they lack confidence to leave familiar surroundings. Their parents haven't taken them anywhere. Brixton kids can walk to the Ebony & they have outings to places outside London which is enriching.