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Educational Video Game - Food Force

18 years 5 months ago #125845 by Shawn
Good thing its free, looks okay.
Hopefully the UN is playing it also, Lord knows they could use it.
They forgot
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18 years 5 months ago #125844 by JHB
I just found this recently and thought it was pretty cool. www.food-force.com/

This (free) downloadable video game is designed to teach children about world hunger and food relief efforts. It's designed for children age 8-13 and is pretty interesting.

Here's some more info:

From the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the world’s largest humanitarian agency, Food Force is an educational video game telling the story of a hunger crisis on the fictitious island of Sheylan.

Comprised of 6 mini-games or “missions”, the game takes young players from an initial crisis assessment through to delivery and distribution of food aid, with each sequential mission addressing a particular aspect of this challenging process.

The various Food Force missions demonstrate and help explain the following hunger learning themes:

* What is hunger and who are the hungry?
* Why are people hungry and malnourished?
* What can we do to help end hunger?

Together, the missions provide an overview of how food aid is used in both emergencies and long-term development projects. We therefore suggest playing the game straight through from beginning to end, which takes about half an hour.

In case of limited time or lesson focus, individual missions can be accessed directly from the start-up screen by typing the mission number (1,2,3,4,5 or 6):

1. Air Surveillance: The causes of hunger and malnutrition
2. Energy Pacs: Nutrition and the cost of feeding the hungry
3. Airdrop: WFP’s emergency response
4. Locate and Dispatch: Global food procurement
5. The Food Run: Land-based logistics
6. Future Farming: Long-term food aid projects

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