Green Spaces
Project of the Month
July 2002 - The
Kafel Centre. Swansea
Contact: info@kafel.org
Drawing by
Shafiul Islam (Bengali)
The Kafel Garden Project is still in
the early stages of development. It will
be interesting to follow the progress of
this green space to see the stages of
development.
A main point of interest is the
elaborate consultation exercise that has
been undertaken and the resulting
consultation report.
Kafel is a voluntary charity
organisation working with Swansea's
Muslim ethnic minority community. It has
taken its name from an Arabic word
meaning 'to nurture'.
The aim of the Kafel project is to
transform an unused church into a
Community Centre and to develop its
grounds. The centre will be designed to
meet the needs of the whole community and
send out a positive message by creating
an amenity that can benefit the wider
community.
This Green Space in waiting has huge
potential, and with the correct
organisation and design the garden will
bring life back to the abandoned church
and establish the Centre as a local land
mark.
At present there are very few green
spaces in the city centre and the Kafel
Centre provides an ideal location for
creating such a space. It is Kafel's
intention that the Centre should benefit,
in particular, the most vulnerable and
neglected sections of this community,
namely, women, youth, the elderly and the
disabled.
Click
more.. to see the interesting
consultation report
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