Caminhando Juntas (Walking together)

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Caminhando Juntas (Walking together)

Walking solutions with gender and race perspective

Challenges

The “Walking Together” project by Instituto Caminhabilidade addresses a pressing challenge: ensuring inclusive access to the Bruno Covas New Rio Pinheiros Park for communities bordering the river. The park, a significant public space in São Paulo, faces accessibility hurdles, especially for 97 low-income neighborhoods within its vicinity. Existing limited access points force residents into long, unsafe walks of 30 minutes to 1.5 hours, deterring them from utilizing this space. Lack of awareness about the park’s public status and amenities further compounds the issue, fostering an undemocratic perception and potentially exacerbating gentrification. “Walking Together” focuses on empowering women and female leaders to advocate for improved pedestrian routes and increased access points, aiming to create a more inclusive and accessible environment for these communities neighboring the park.

Toward a Solution

Walking together is a collaborative project with women and female leaderships from the three low income communities closest to the Pinheiros River: Peinha, Real Parque and Jardim Panorama. It aims to promote safe and democratic walking routes between these communities and the park, through its participatory workshops, strengthening and bringing women from these territories closer to the ongoing discussions and transformations in the urban space and qualified public spaces.

The project intends to face global issues such as the climate crisis and gender inequality, acting locally on the territorial problem of lack of walkability and access to the city, to urban nature and to free public spaces, which are a greater challenge for women and girls from deprived communities bordering the river. In this way, the project expands the fronts of women’s action, by developing capacities and spaces for them to fight towards urban and environmental changes, showing the importance and possibilities of acting for more walkable cities in order to face gender inequalities.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Name: Leticia Sabino Title: CEO Organization: Instituto Caminhabilidade (Walkability Institute) previously SampaPe!

SDG
11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

SUPPORTED BY
Fundo Casa Socioambiental and the French Embassy, as part of the Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action

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