Village the Game: Play it. Love it. Live it.

After a few months of planning and paperwork, we now have Panango, an NGO ready to send students to Papua New Guinea. There Stanford University students will be exploring the needs of villagers while teaching English. Village the Game is working with Panango to model these villages inside the game and explore some of the existing solutions in other countries that could also work in Papua New Guinea.

Pictured here is founding team of Panango from left to right: Darian Hickman, Christa Morris, Nick Benavides, Ally Stewart, Cole Paulson, Chenxing Han, and AdamTolnay. Not pictured: Andi Kleissner, and Angel Inokon.

Mission of Panango
Panango is a student run non-profit organization dedicated to equipping rural populations in Papua New Guinea with the English skills necessary to act as effective community advocates on a variety of environmental, educational and health issues while simultaneously preparing program volunteers to become social entrepreneurs. Through a combination of mentorship, hands on experience, and entrepreneurial simulations such as Village the Game, Panango creates a positive feedback loop where students are trained to find community needs and respond with their own innovative social ventures. In addition to teaching English and empowering villagers, Panango volunteers develop a forward thinking, activist approach to service: finding needs while meeting needs.

Jumali Cooking Oil

Jane Mathendu is a single mother who lives near Mt Kenya. In1998 she bought an KickStart oilseed press to start a new business. She now contracts 20 local farmers to grow sunflowers, employs 2 full time workers and sells the cooking oil in the local market.

The new business has changed Jane's life. She has become a local opinion leader and paid for her daughter's University education - an impossible dream before buying her new press.

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