Empowerment by Playing has won a Nüdel kart! “Fine” you may be thinking, “a ticket to eat free noodles for a year?” No, much, much more fun than that :-). A Nüdel Kart is a mobile inclusive playground! The kart is a cart made up of more than 350 individual parts; sticks, boards, cloths, wheels boxes and much, much more.
Playground Ideas
The kart was developed by the Australian organization Playground Ideas . Playground Ideas helps people build playgrounds themselves, using materials available locally. Around the world, local communities have built playgrounds with the help of the manuals and support from Playground Ideas. From different communities came reports that there are places in the world where it is not possible to build a playground, places like refugee camps or very densely populated slums. In these places are children, children who diserve and need play spaces. The Nüdel Kart was developed especially for these places. An instrument that creates an instand safe and creative play space for all children, wherever you put it and use it. Click here for videos of the Nüdel Kart in action.
Inclusive play with the Nüdel Kart in the Netherlands
April 2022 Empowerment by Playing received an email fram Playground Ideas with the contest; Tell us what you will do with a Nüdel Kart and maybe you will win a free kart!
Well that wasn’t difficult. The (ultimately winning) idea; Empowerment by Playing is going to use the Nüdel Kart to promote inclusive play for children with and without disabilities in public playgrounds, playgrounds and schoolyards in the Netherlands.
And so now the Nüdel Kart is in the living room in Wageningen. It has been disassembled and reassembled several times and of course it has been played with.
If you look closely, you can see the “ZOOM” logo on the Nüdel Kart. This is not a decoration. ZOOM is the worldwide sponsor of several free Nüdel Karts. The Wageningen Nüdel Kart was not only sponsored by the team from ZOOM Amsterdam, but also assembled.
Empowerment by playing is very greatfull to have won the price and really looking forward to getting started with the kart.
