Why Dipeo is an effective learning tool in poverty projects:

• It is suitable for people with, or without any prior education.
• Easy to use and easy to bring along.
• Needs no maintainance, updates, electricity or wifi.
• Can be used everywhere and can therefore reach everyone – in urban and rural settings alike.

Self-help groups often consist of poor rural women who want to make their own living and improve their quality of life. To achieve this they need to learn numeracy and how to manage money.

With Dipeo the women get training in how to run a micro-business and how to increase their incomes in a more effective way. They also learn to look for economic opportunities and practice how to deal with money in a safe and playful setting.

Children. Many of the members in self-help groups are caregivers for children. Even if the women have little schooling themselves, they can play Dipeo with the children and in this way help them to do better at school.

The game can be used both in school and at after school activities.

While playing and having fun they train numeracy skills and analytical thinking, as well as learning about business.

The Dipeo game is also suitable for projects targeting the equality and rights people with disabilities.

For example, the learning challenges and opportunities are all equally accessible for people in wheelchairs. And the social aspect of the game is great for promoting inclusion.

Dipeo, as a "business building board game", is a useful supplement to many forms of entrepreneurial and vocational training efforts. 

An example is the activity based and innovative entrepreneurship training that takes place in the Leap Learning Entrepreneurship Labs. These learning labs have already included the Dipeo game in its work.

Entrepreneurship Labs are presently established in The Gambia, Kenya, Mali, Ethiopia and Mosambique.

From the upper left:

1. High School students playing Dipeo as after school activity at MyFarm in The Gambia.
2. Young female entrepreneurs playing Dipeo in Rakops, Botswana.
3. Participants at introductory course in Norwegian, with Hero in Oslo.
4. Young girls from a Women Health Association (WHAE) project for economic empowerment in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.