26/10/2020
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Within 15 minutes of playing our hand hygiene game, called Endood, players know the importance of regularly washing their hands and using a face mask. Critical behaviours in today’s current crisis. In essence, the game is a trade-off between small sacrifices for hygiene vs large benefits in health and security.
We designed and manufactured this game in Ethiopia. Ethiopia has over 80 languages and unique cultures so we made sure that the messages could cross these boundaries and still be understood. It works for children, teenagers, adults or elders.
We have played it in homes, schools, cafes, hotels, gas stations and under trees all over Ethiopia. Each time making iterative changes and improvements to the gameplay and design based on the feedback we got.
Children even begin to police & influence their own parents and families’ behaviours after playing, spreading the healthy hand hygiene practices further to those more vulnerable through age.
Once we had a classroom full of children watching as a 16 year boy went for the fast, unhygienic route through the game, not bothering to wash his hands at all. When he was caught out just a field before the finish he had to start all over. He was so frustrated he leapt to his feet and almost stormed out.
Fortunately, his friends helped him see the funny side, but that day, everybody in the classroom went home knowing that their attitude towards something as simple as washing hands had completely changed, teachers and pupils alike.
Everybody needs to practice hygienic hand washing behaviour in order to protect ourselves and each other from the spread of diseases like Covid19.
The world wants to get their schools back as safely and as soon as possible. Parents need to return to work and revive the economy as well as their own income.
Medical workers need to protect their patients and themselves through regular handwashing behaviour.
Our game can help with these goals.
Healthy children can attend school.
Parents with kids in school, can return to work.
Healthy medical workers can continue to serve sick patients and avoid an overwhelmed health system.
If you are interested in using our game for your project to protect school children and adults alike from Covid19 and other diseases then get in touch on [email protected].
Your participants are taken on a journey through their day in the style of an entertaining game. This simple educational play engages on an emotional level that…
