Background
Children and youth as target groups have been the topic of many training programmes and generation of a range of educational material in various of GEF SGP projects by different grantees. Training material include varying levels of involvement and engagement, from being the target of trainings, to becoming trainers.

Urban youth and children that have lost their contact with the nature however have access to computers, whereas the locals and indigenous peoples still have a very deep traditional knowledge ? which we would like to help to be preserve- but lacking the self-confidence and mostly looking up to cities. Tapping into their different abilities and needs, different approaches are needed for these various target groups. One of these approaches is linking the training and learning with games and toys. The first Training book for the Nature Game Guards of Department of the Environment, the first educational maps of the wildlife in Iran, collection of indigenous games to show the deep linkage between their games local and their environment resources, the cloth animals of endangered and sensitive species in various habitats and with collaboration of local municipalities building the first local family parks with the traditional but green wind t tower architecture which make the playgrounds a place to represent the knowledge in the locals architecture and helping to change attitudes towards these. Fore as people learn or be reminded of their ecological value, they may be more prompt to save them and decrease the rate in their destruction and being replaced with high energy using and non-climatic friendly of more modern buildings.

The grantee of this project has started its work 3 years ago. The purpose of this group is recreating, designing and manufacturing Iranian traditional games and toys. It focuses on three years of specialized seminars, workshops, professional meetings, designing games and toys. Therefore an opportunity to raise the status of traditional games and toys with linkage with the environment.


Project Brief

This project in line with environmental protection and the value of the indigenous people by digging it out of the games and is a traditional manners, designing and recreating with the help tools and different types games to protect native heritage and help spread and sense of responsibility for his native people.

Activities introduced to games and toys of the native in order to preserve and to present them to the researchers and producers and to investigate the values and functions in their attention to climate and the environment in this project will be done. This project sensitive to and aware of the people native to the climate and the environment and increase their sense of responsibility for protecting it education and informed people every area native with the help articles and toys of native people and strengthening native will be done.

Major project activities:

1. Seminars specialized in designing toys and educational tools based on knowledge, values and indigenous environment. Construction a small demonstration playground like Qeshm Family Park with Local wind tower architectural elements
2. Participation of indigenous groups in the local construction toys
3. Connection with the producers and the owners of the industries for building mass of toys and native products in order to propagate and preserve native heritage
4. Workshops and special sessions of the Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents in Tehran, Sharif University of Technology and etc.
5. Arbitration forms of participation designed to hold a second national contest to design toys, Sharif University of Technology
6. Advice about 10 student theses in the field of toy design at the University of
7. Publication of the booklet and guide Environmental Protection through introducing games and toys of native
8. Present documents work done in the Seminar designed specialized toys with the issue of the new approach to games and toys traditional