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WASH Quartet
Game
The WASH Quartet is a version of the Austrian card game ‘quartets’, designed by Games with a Heart and MetaMeta to playfully educate its audience on water, sanitation and health issues. Previous iterations have been widely tested in Greece (2022), Uganda (2021), Yemen (2020) and Ethiopia (2018), and have been released in multiple languages, including Amharic, Arabic, English, Greek, Kakwa and Spanish
Rules
The game can be played with 3 to 4 players. The goal is to collect as many matching series of cards, or ‘quartets’, as possible. Players take turns asking the other participants for missing cards from their categories (for example “Do you have the ‘Use water and soap’ card from the category Clean Hands?”), which leads to an entertaining and educational experience.
Info
The game has been tried out in numerous settings around the globe, with further improvements made from the feedback received from the participants in before, during and after these trials. For example, in Yemen the game was tried out for the International Handwashing Day with Save the Children Yemen whilst in Uganda the game was tested together with GIZ Uganda and the focus lay on caregivers and mothers of the local communities and thus both a caregiving and breastfeeding category were created and included. Recently, during trials on refugee camps in Greece with EuroRelief, the WASH Quartet was tested with an audience of a variety of nationalities and cultures at English classes conducted at the camp.
Languages
Six languages (with options for more): Amharic, Arabic, English, Greek, Kakwa and Spanish.
Age
Suitable for ages 9 and up.
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