PHOTOS: Bringing international games to L.A.
Students play “stride ball,” a game popular in Australia, as part of the Just Like You sports program at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy in Los Angeles. Every Friday, students leave their world -- tiny Pico-Union apartments shared with parents and siblings -- to travel someplace new. They’ve voyaged across Mongolia, Beijing and Shanghai; Botswana, Malawi and Namibia, to play games that kids their own age play in those countries.
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Students at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy play “stride ball,” a game popular in Australia. The nonprofit Just Like You dispatches volunteers with giant globes and atlases to local schools, where they teach about world cultures to children who rarely set foot outside Los Angeles.
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Students play “magic ray,” a tag-like game, at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy. Australia (“a country and a continent,” a teacher informs them) is one they’ve been getting to know since early April.
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Students celebrate after playing games at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy. Today they learned about Australia’s deserts and coral reefs and sting rays and 1,500 kinds of spiders, including a fist-size species that devours birds.
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Oscar Mejia, 11, walks home from Camino Nuevo Charter Academy. He’s learned about the thick forests of China, the grassy plains of South Africa and the fragile coral reefs of Australia. “Next I really want to go to Barcelona and Honduras and England and also to France to see that big thing the people go there to see,” he said. “You know, the tower thing.”
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