About

Project SANDbox is an initiative to create a natural playground for 200 kindergarten students and 16 preschoolers at Hopewell Avenue Public School. The current yard does not have proper drainage, the sandbox was removed and there is barely any shade. The yard is covered in water in the spring creating giant pools of water and hazardous icy conditions in the winter.

All of your donations will go into a tangible legacy at the centre of the Old Ottawa community. The funds will be used to dig up the yard, install proper drainage, all new surfaces including accessible surface of wood chips and maintain the paved pathway for tricycle and plasma car tracks. The funds will go toward beautiful trees to provide shade and learning opportunities for our children. There is also a planned stretched canvas shade sail over a new sandbox to continue that fun sensory play and outdoor learning space complete with natural log seating, a wooden play tunnel and play huts! Check out the design in the photos section.

The new yard will build on the legacy that Hopewell Avenue Public School has to our community in Old Ottawa South.