Heartlines_For_Good - Learning for Life

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Choose an action
Look closely at your ideas and choose an action you could take.
Choose something small and manageable to begin with. Choose
one that will give you results you can see.
This is the list of ideas for action that the group who drew the map
on page 35 came up with. They decided to focus on one problem,
which is the safety of people who live there. You will see how they
have chosen one action from their long list of ideas.
Our main problem is the safety of people who live here.
1. Drunk people get into fights and commit crimes especially against children.
Our ideas for action:
Make sure that only places with a liquor licence can sell alcohol
in our area. Get the illegal sellers to close down.
Make sure that these licensed places keep to legal opening times only
and do not sell liquor to children under 18.
2. Children are knocked over by cars outside the school.
Our idea for action:
When the robots don’t work police must come and direct traffic so
children can cross.
3. Children and young women are harassed in the park and outside the cinema.
Our ideas for action:
Get the waste in the area cleared up so people see that this is a
clean place where good people live and not a place for crime.
We also need to stop people dumping there in future.
Get the trees around the street lights cut.
Get the park fenced off and a security guard put in place to stop
crime in the park.
The police must be seen in the area at night when young people go to
the cinema and shops.
For the next step go to page 40.
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