Games and Activities

This document includes the three pile sorting activity and instructions for facilitating the activity. The three pile sorting activity is a participatory tool to help a group of people discuss common water, sanitation and hygiene practices and beliefs.

These instructions explain how to facilitate the three pile sorting activity with a group of people.

This document includes the transmission routes activity and instructions for facilitating the activity. The transmission routes activity is a participatory tool to educate people about how feces can make us sick. The tool also helps a group of people to identify how to stop the transmission of water-related diseases.

These instructions explain how to facilitate the transmission routes activity with a group of people.

This tool helps people practice identifying WASH issues in a household. It also helps people learn how to find out more information on why the WASH issues exist in a household. It is designed for the Community WASH Promotion workshop; however, it can be used for any audience

These are the instructions for the WASH Detective activity.

This document includes the gender roles activity and instructions for facilitating the activity. The gender roles activity is a participatory tool to help a group of people to discuss gender roles related to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).

These instructions explain how to facilitate the water, sanitation and hygiene gender roles activity with a group of people.

This document includes the sanitation ladder activity and instructions for facilitating the activity. The sanitation ladder activity is a participatory tool to help people to identify options for improving sanitation in their community and realize that this can be a gradual process.

In this lesson, students act out a play that demonstrates that negative consequences of contaminated water. In this play, sick villagers seek out help from Tikho and Daniel, who expertly fight disease through hygiene and water filtration.

This activity assesses youth’s understanding of water, hygiene and sanitation practices. It is an interactive activity to encourage discussion about situations occurring in Africa.

In this lesson students learn about the lives of two girls, Tikho from Zambia and Jenny from Honduras, and how their communities are addressing issues with water and sanitation. At the end of the lesson students compare themselves, with Tikho and Jenny, to identify what they have in common and what is different with regards to water, sanitation and hygiene in their community.

This hands-on card game was designed to use with youth in North America and Europe. It helps participants understand how local water, sanitation, and hygiene practices impact health and the environment.

This hands-on lesson challenges students to use simple materials and design a technology to address a water, sanitation or hygiene issue faced by people living in developing countries. In this lesson students assess their designs using real-world criteria to determine the effectiveness and sustainability of their solutions.

Use this colourful card activity to help participants understand how different water-related diseases are connected through similar transmission routes and prevention strategies. This resource includes the cards and instructions. Print the cards double sided, flip on the long edge.