The Thaitucker Trial game is based on the charity's school lunch farm project where Thai schoolchildren, living in communities devastated by the tsunami of 2004, grow their own lunches in or near school grounds.

Players must build their own lunch farm and compete with changing conditions to manage the buying, selling and distribution of produce for their school and local community. Many of the crops are typical Thai cuisine such as vegetables, chillies and crabs and are intended to promote healthier eating.

The school lunch farm project has been a great success in Thailand. The guarantee of a square meal a day from produce grown themselves has helped many hundreds of children to stay in school, learn about cultivation and provide crops for their community.

The game comes with extensive curriculum support materials which will be of interest to teachers of Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 aged children (seven to 14 years) across several subject areas including Citizenship, Geography, Health Education, Home Economics, Information Technology, Mathematics, Religious Education and Science.

Alongside the game, the Pattaya Orphanage Trust is also launching a Young Fundraisers Club for classes, clubs and societies who want to become more involved in supporting the charity's work. One of the aims of the Club is to provide schoolage children with an introduction to the work of a charity.

Thaitucker Trial and the Young Fundraisers Club are also an engaging and informative way of tackling issues much closer to home - promoting healthy eating, out-of-school activities and crossing the boundaries between school subjects.

Membership of the Young Fundraisers Club is free and open to all. It complies strictly with data protection regulations. To qualify, children must play the Thaitucker Trial, introduce a friend and become involved in a fundraising event organised through their class, club or society.

In return members receive a welcome pack with tips and templates to help them promote their own events, three newsletters a year as well as special Thaitucker Trial badges, and certificates to be awarded by the teacher or organiser.

Andrew Scadding, Chief Executive of the Pattaya Orphanage Trust, says: "Thaitucker Trial introduces today's major development issues to UK schoolchildren in a way that really brings them to life.

"The tsunami has left long-term problems that are far from over. Many children are deprived of education because of the lack of something as simple as a school lunch. The game and the Young Fundraisers Club show that there are solutions to these problems and that there are lots of things young people can do to help."

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