1$day Game
In 2011 we challenged everyone to see who could get their $1 from Australia to Laos the fastest, while dodging many iconic obstacles along the way. But it was more than a game and a race to Laos. With your $1, and everyone else’s $1, together we built a village health clinic bringing health services to children who would otherwise go without.
Download via iTunes to play on ipads and iphones. Play online (requires Unity plugin) and use your arrow keys to direct your coin and the space bar to jump the obstacles. Share with friends, and share your score with us as we find the fastest! http://www.facebook.com/1dollarday.
Play, donate, share and celebrate – because together we can reduce the global inequities in children’s health and education.
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Why a game?
When we set out on the journey of asking everyone who can, to give just $1 for those who can’t, we had to find the most compelling, efficient and effective ways to collect everyone’s $1. Technology and social media are at the core of these efficiencies. The 1$day Game was an engaging way to tell the 2011 story – the importance of everyone getting their $1 to Laos, so together we could have a significant and positive impact on the lives of others.
The 1$day game uses story telling, social media and the efficiencies of online and mobile donating to ensure 1$day can reach as many people with $1 as possible. It also ensures that 100% of your $1 reaches 1$Day Limited through the support of PayPal.
Play, donate, share and celebrate – because together we can reduce the global inequities in children’s health and education.
From Australia to Laos
Save the Children was the principal recipient for your donation in 2011. Donations were dedicated to building a village clinic in remote northern Laos, helping to increase the percentage of the population with ‘access to health’. Each clinic includes the building and set up with equipment, furniture, the provision of clean water and sanitation. The clinic offers health services to women and children from the most disadvantaged and isolated rural communities. The program is based on a simple, effective replicable model that is already making a significant impact to the people of Laos. When Save the Children builds a village clinic they go beyond the construction and equipment and provide comprehensive training for the nurses that staff the facility. The clinics have a general medicine consultation room, a three-bed ward for people who need care overnight, a specific maternal and child health room and a dispensary. No appointments are necessary and the nurses are there 7 days a week.
Save the Children has demonstrated that operating clinics means:
- a child’s likelihood of surviving their first year will increase 75% above the national average.
The Provincial Health Department, Sayaboury province selected a new village health centre to be built in Phonesaath Village, Phieng District. This health centre will serve over 11,750 people living in eleven surrounding villages. This will include nearly 5,000 children. The health centre will be staffed by four nurses who have been trained by the Save the Children Primary Health Care Program.
The biggest changes clinics such as these make are to the lives of rural women and their children. Bringing health care within one hour’s walk can literally change, and save, their lives.
