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Game: Don't Trust Your eyes

Category: Green Health

Background:

In Right To Play’s Red Ball Child Play program, each of the five components of enhancing healthy child development and promoting physical activity and fun are symbolized by a ball of a different colour - Red Mind Ball, Black Body Ball, Yellow Spirit Ball, Green Health Ball and Blue Peace Ball.

Right To Play Ghana Coach leads Don't Trust Your Eyes game at a Right To Play SportHealth festival.

Activities from the Green Health Ball aim to teach children about:

• infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria;
• anxiety and depression;
• the importance of diet, physical activity, hygiene, sleep, healthy environment;
• and the dangers of tobacco.

Purpose: To promote discussion of HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination.

Players: Unlimited

Equipment: Small object (for example, a ball or bottle)

Formation: Two lines facing each other

Instructions: Divide participants into two equal teams. The teams line up shoulder-to-shoulder facing one another across a 5-10 metre space. Explain that the first team will pass a small object among themselves behind their backs, while the second team claps and counts to 30. When the second team has reached 30, the first team must stop passing the object. The second team then has three chances to guess which player on the first team is holding the object. Both teams should have several opportunities to pass the object or guess.

Discussion points:

• What do you think this activity has to do with stigma and discrimination based on HIV/AIDS?
• The object represents HIV. It can be caught by anybody, and it is difficult to tell who has it.
• Do you see HIV+ people stigmatized in your community? How?
• Do you see HIV+ people discriminated against in your community? How?
• What causes stigma and discrimination?
• How should we respond to people who are HIV+?
• How can we fight stigma and discrimination?

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