![]() ![]() "My mom - back in my home country - she couldn't afford things, so I decided to build this so no one else would have to feel like that." Helping homeless Calgarians a themeĪyanee's family fled war torn Afghanistan arriving in Calgary in 2013 just before the big floods. "At the start we were going to build a thrift store that has free food and free water in it," Ayanee explained. 2016 | Threats from the Taliban forced family to fleeĪyanee's idea is centred in supporting people with limited incomes and experiencing housing insecurity. ![]() "Then we turned them loose in the Minecraft world to see what they could create." "In my classroom we talked about what is in the downtown core and what the kids would like to see there," Dan Pye, one of Ayanee's teachers, told the Calgary Eyeopener. The city, the public school board and the video game makers partnered just weeks ago to invite ideas of how to repurpose Calgary's core. That creative element made it a great project for Calgary students to help build the future of the city's downtown core after it's been devastated by record-high vacancy rates due, in part, to a struggling oil and gas industry and a reduced need for physical office space. Minecraft is a massively popular video game where players can gather or mine building materials and create a world to live and play in. "Amazing," said the Grade 5 student from the Bowcroft School in northwest Calgary. Bashir Ayanee loves Minecraft, so could not contain his excitement when he learned of a school project that would capitalize on his expertise while hopefully one day helping others. ![]()
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