While we are all confined, Fanny Agostini offers you this morning Epopia, a role-playing game for children which allows them to become heroes of environmental protection. By correspondence, children embody adults responsible for the environment, as director of NGOs, animal parks or protected sites. Each week, you find very concrete decisions to be made, and this is the old-fashioned way, by mail, and this makes children aware and responsible for green issues.
What better way to educate children about protecting the environment than to make them responsible while playing! Epopia is a role-playing game, a simulation of decisions, which immerses participants in the shoes of an adult with the mission of preserving nature. The concept is simple, but very clever: the game will create a scenario, necessarily fictional, but very realistic, in which the child occupies a position of high responsibility and will therefore play a decisive role in the evolution of the game.
The participants of Epopia become paleontologists, directors of nature reserves, super advisers to a head of state, king or queen of a kingdom where nature is in danger ... Young people must make decisions to overcome a lot of obstacles and successfully completing the missions entrusted to it. Imagine, for example, that your child suddenly has to manage the stranding of an oil tanker in a nature reserve? or the reintroduction of protected species? Or the shortage of food for animals after a drought? All these questions also make it possible to involve the family and introduce the child to ecological issues.
The young participants develop their taste for reading and writing, and their imagination. The Epopia teams provide very personalized follow-up. Each week letters, cards, illustrations are sent to help the child progress. Organizers say they are often blown away by the quality of the responses. What to wonder if the real heads of state and ministers should not take children from time to time as environmental advisers. Nothing better to give a step ahead to the small eco-responsible citizens of tomorrow, than to entrust them with responsibilities today.