A new online game has been launched by a nonprofit organization devoted to ending extreme poverty.
The game, Survive125, helps players to get some idea of what it is like to live in extreme poverty, a reality for 1.3 billion people, by challenging them to survive one month on $1.25 a day.
While playing the part of Divya Patel a 26-year-old woman living in India with your four children, a gamer must make decisions such as whether to send his or her teenage daughter to work at a factory with a presence of sex trafficking in order to make more money and whether to stay home with a sick child, which would require missing one day’s worth of wages. The game is over when Patel runs out of money.
Live58, which launched the game, is made up of 10 non-profits working to see the end of extreme poverty, by educating and inspiring people on issues of extreme poverty,” Scott Seibold, director of media for Live58, told Mashable. “Lots of people have done videos, but we never saw anyone take on gaming, and we wanted to create something experimental.”
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