National Youth Young Adults Ministry

 

Simulation Grame

Simulation Games are a great participatory way of learning for senior youth and young adults.

TEAR Australia

http://www.tear.org.au/resources/simulation-games

TEAR has a number of simulation games easily downloadable at  including:

Basti Life

Families become paper-bag makers for survival and have to contend with unfair shopkeepers, debt collectors, and other hazards of slum life. It also explores the possibilities of positive social change through community development work in a Basti.

Global Village

This is a game that explores some of the issues of inequality, wealth and poverty in our world.

Level Playing Field

This is a simulation that raises issue of global aid, trade and debt as part of a full-on game of touch football.

Monsoon

Become an Indian farming family and explore issues of poverty, justice and faith under the fickle Indian monsoon.

Monsoon is a realistic and highly interactive simulation game that focuses on some of the dynamics of poverty in an imaginary village near Mysore in India.

Players take the roles of farmers and experience some of the forces that shape people's lives in a village. The game was originally designed and developed by SEARCH of India to help train people working in these communities. It has been modified by TEAR Australia to focus on challenging Australian Christians to think about issues of global poverty and injustice and how they relate to our faith.

Refugee Game

This simulation can be emotionally extremely confronting so please take care when running it. TEAR Australia does not recommend this simulation for participants under 18 years of age. TEAR staff and volunteers are also able to run this simulation for any group that wishes. Please contact the TEAR office if you would like to find out about the possibility of running Refugee with your group.

Rickshaw

Explore the kinds of jobs people do to make ends meet in poor communities. What are the pressures on the working poor in India?

Simulations about water

These games are pretty much guaranteed to get people wet. Because of this, some sensitivity is required as to where they are played and how people (especially girls) are dressed. Give people plenty of advanced warning about when these games will be played. Consider providing raincoats or garbage-bags with head and arm holes for protection.

Simulation Games series published by Pat Baker also have excellent simulation games suggestions

 

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