If you are looking for some innovative ideas to impart knowledge about the prevention of HIV and AIDS to youths in your community, here is an interesting computer game developed by UNESCO. “Fast Car: Traveling Safely around the World” is a car racing game that not only helps the player know about HIV and AIDS, but it also gives a virtual tour around some of the World’s Heritage Sites.
Part of the project called “Development of interactive multimedia tools on HIV and AIDS for youths,” the game seeks to entertain and educate young people with accurate and reliable information about HIV prevention. As youths around the world are vulnerable to HIV, they often lack useful resources to understand and take prevention against it. The game can be relevant to them as it provides information about HIV and its prevention in an interactive manner.
However, the problem is that the game is available only in three languages (English, French and Russian) and there is no indication of further language translations to benefit local communities in developing countries. Nevertheless, it is still a remarkable tool to empower educated youths so that they can take the message beyond to their communities. Youths as young as sixteen years can play the game.
NGOs can gather a group of youths from their communities or even their young staff members, download this game on their office computers and allow them to play it for some time. As the car races through some of the World’s Heritage Sites, the player is able to get additional bonus points at checkpoints as he or she correctly answers questions about HIV and its prevention. For incorrect answers, there are useful definitions and information given.
To download the game, you need to provide information about your name, email and your location. Once downloaded on the computer, each player has to create a username and a password and use them to log in to play back. Only one player can play the game each time on a computer.
To download the game, visit this link.
The download size of the game is 32 MB.
Based in western province kenya
is there not a page for fundsforngos in French?
and that HIV game is there not a french version
then?
Conratulations on coming up with this interesting initiative. We would like to be your partners in implenting this. IFEPAC, our organization , is currently invloved in various HIV/AIDS activities in Baringo where we are working with COL and NACC to create awareness on HIV and AIDS amongst te nomadic communities. Your initiative will help us further the project we initiated in 2008, Beyond Classroom, which intended to support nomadic primary children affected by internal conflict in Baringo region. We have also been requested by local leaders in Suba to find ways and means of helping Primary children affected with HIV and AIDS in the area . We think this initiatve is very much in line with our mission of providing education and information through open and flexble systems. Please , send us the applicattion form. Sincerely, Kephers, Executive Director, IFEPAC
I have advertised the website and people now are downloading the fast car. The Children now are going to play and know what HIV and AIDS. Congratulations to UNESCO
RUSANGANWA Leon Pierre
Chairman of CSDI – Community
Centenary House, 4th floor
Kigali – Rwanda
and
Behavior Change and Social marketing Project manager of
Private sector Federation (PSF)
Dear all,
The moment has come to discuss with children about sexuality. To educate them how to say no to friends how wants to play sex, and how to overcome sugar daddies and mommies issues.
I was very Glad to see your comments there. I will be glad to maintain our discussions and updates
RUSANGANWA Leon Pierre
Chairman of CSDI – Community
Centenary House, 4th floor
Kigali – Rwanda
and
Behavior Change and Social marketing Project manager of
Private sector Federation (PSF)
Vite-N-Hope is working for the HIV and AIDS awareness among youth and people having risky behavir since 1992 colllaborating different UN organizations, Civil socities and local CBO’s. Vite-N-Hope is also working for the empowerment of MARAS (Most At Risk Adolscents) through its Educational and Counseling Centers (ECC’s).
It will be our pleasure to educate thr youth and MARAS through different games.
Thanks to the UNESCO for working to the humanitarian from many years, it is a great initiative to developed the software regarding the knowledge of HIV / AIDS. It is a really helpful to the people which are illiterate.
We the Humanity Welfare Society Siwan is again given thanks to the UNESCO.
Hello,
Warm greetings from The Sociao Economic Development Trust Fund (SEDTF)
We thank you for the good work you are doing to serve the world well done,We greatly need to work together with you in the course of combating poverty in the needy communities of Musoma town council and Musoma rural sub counties of Musoma district and rescuing the suffering children e.g orphans, needy, street children and vulnerable children through provision of basic education, health meals and creating awareness about HIV/AIDS here in Tanzania, whereby, all those are the main rout cause to poverty in Tanzania.
And also we need to receive volunteers from your organization to our organization and we together in combating poverty in the needy communities..
SEDTFis a non profit community based organization created by a group of professional teachers, pastors and Christian men and women with the mission of ” To save orphaned children without discrimination”.
Please sends us the application form and we apply, thank you.
We hope to hear from you, may God bless you.
Any question please do not hesitate to contact us.
yours,
Japheth,
Secretary General – SEDTF
think you very much for your kind think about the life of the youth who are considered as the expectation of the future world
here in rwanda we have tried the all our best to help them ,in fact the outcome seems to be good
so it is crucial to have this training which should be successful
i hope i will be there
Hello,
Warm greetings from The Teachers’ Association to Cater for Children(TTATCC) – Uganda.
We thank you for the good work you are doing to serve the world well done,
We greatly need to work together with you in the course of combating poverty in the needy communities of Buwenge town council and Buwenge rural sub counties of Jinja district and rescuing the suffering children e.g orphans, needy, street children and vulnerable children through provision of basic education, health meals and creating awareness about HIV/AIDS here in Uganda, whereby, all those are the main rout cause to poverty in Uganda.
And also we need to receive volunteers from your organization to our organization and we together in combating poverty in the needy communities..
TTATCC is a non profit community based organization created by a group of professional teachers, pastors and Christian men and women with the mission of ” To save orphaned children without discrimination”.
Please sends us the application form and we apply, thank you.
We hope to hear from you, may God bless you.
Any question please do not hesitate to contact us.
Kind Regards,
Mukaya Alone,
Founder/Director,
The Teachers’ Association to Cater for Children- Uganda.