Observing the Changes in My Neighborhood

Most people don’t take walks to see what’s going on in their neighbourhood. Those people are likely to integrated in their communities are less likely to get cold, heart attack, stroke, cancer or depression (Putnam, 2000) I’m always taking a walk around my neighbourhood to see my surroundings. When I do, I’m always surprised to see how much my neighbourhood as change over the past year, and during those walks around the neighbourhood I have seen changing happening.

I started my walk right outside my house, on Bluewater Crescent. As I stand and looked around, I realize that there’s a lot of trees build along the sidewalk, and all the houses in my neighbourhood is single houses. In my neighbourhood everything is walking distance its very close. There are small shops and restaurants and bakeries and grocery stores and school near me, as well as community centre, library and a police station.

My neighbourhood is very diverse there are lots of Caribbean people, Chinese, Caucasian, African, Indians and middle eastern. I like living in my neighbourhood because as a Jamaican living in Canada, back home in my neighbourhood there’s a lot of Caribbean, African and Chinese restaurant in one spot. I like to see that my neighbourhood is developing, it makes me feel as if I never left Jamaica. When I walk into most small shops in the neighbourhood, I see the same snacks, food that I would buy back home in Jamaica in the restaurant and grocery store.

My neighbourhood is very open there is close by transportation, park and a trail. As I continue to walk down the street there’s a lot of near by locally own business, As I walk and stand and look into each store I’ve notice that in and Indian and west Indian/ Caribbean restaurant, Caribbean, Chinese, Middle Easter there are blacks and Caucasian, Middle Eastern buying their food, I then realized my neighbourhood is very diversity, However, A few years ago I have notice a few issues and changes in neighbour, there was no access to service, restaurant and small local stores in my neighborhood.

Since my neighbour is diverse community started to come together to seek improvement and quality of like style, because of the connection between social, cultural, environmental and economic matter What is Community Development? (n. d. ), If it wasn’t for the diversity in my neighbourhood, we wouldn’t have these changes this bring the community together to interact with different ethnicity, this is a development approach. Social welfare exists because it makes life better and fulfills human development. builds on strengths, identifying resources within the individual, the group or the community Service Approach Vs Development Approach (Chart Page 72). -e.g. A Community Garden or Park.

My neighbourhood is also function attribute community, because of the diversity the community had to research and provide for the neighbourhood because everyone shares a different interest.