In the United Kingdom, Prisoners spend more time outdoors than 75% of the children. In Spain, 82% of those from 0 to 12 years old from the time recommended by experts plays something extremely harmful to their health and development.
He “Nature shortage”, added to the stress with which many children live and the excessive use of the screensThey have harmful effects on childhood. For example, spending too many hours in a room with artificial light occurs in face problems or a lower development of the immune system.
Moreover, many scientists say that Thanks to the game, we have the brain that have been developed in this way, that instinct that causes us to experiment and learn and learn it in green spaces It has greater options for practicing.
Girls and boys need green and open spaces
82 percent of Children cannot play in open spaces for at least an hour a day, as experts recommendBecause it is prevented by the design of the streets, the lack of parks or pollution. On the International game Day, the youth platform launched the ‘Play in Our Air’ campaign with which it claims to fulfill the right to play, in a healthy environment and health.
Remember that there is a broad scientific consensus about the benefits and importance of the right to play, leisure and leisure. Specifically, Children are recommended to play at least an hour a day in open spaces of nature.
“In Spain, not 82 %, this situation is due to the lack of engaged spaces for the game that are with nature, healthy, safe and without pollution,” explains Ricardo Ibarra, director of the youth platform. For juvenile tents it is necessary to implement policies «This guarantees the right to play, to the environment and health of girls, boys and adolescents«.
It is collected by Article 31 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Specific, General Observation 17 indicates that peace and recreation are just as important for its development as food, housing, health or education. “He Game develops creativity, imagination and self -confidence, as well as physical, social, cognitive and emotional skills«, Ibarra adds.
However, the streets are not designed that children can play. “In cities, 70 % of the urban space is intended for car traffic and the rest for pedestrians.” In terms of pollution, in Madrid and Barcelona, 46 % of the Children and primary education centers exceed the permitted pollution limitsAccording to the platform, which reminds that it influences the appearance of diseases such as asthma, cardiovascular disorders or respiratory infections.
«We have to transform the streets, Reduce concrete roads and increase green spaces so that girls, boys and adolescents They can play in their air that meets the provisions of General Observation 26 of the United Nations about the rights of childhood and the environment, with special attention to climate change, “concludes Ibarra. EFE / ECOTICIA.COM