MiniMonos is a virtual world for children, focused on sustainability, generosity, community and fun. We're based in New Zealand and we welcome children from around the world to create monkeys and play on MiniMonos!
MiniMonos ( Little Monkeys in Spanish) was founded by mom and entrepreneur Melissa Clark-Reynolds, who was one of the first two New Zealanders to be trained by Al Gore to present The Inconvenient Truth slideshow. Melissa's pioneering work in the New Zealand environmental movement paved the way for more Kiwi presenters to be trained last year.
With MiniMonos, Melissa has combined her entrepreneurial bent, love of technology, and environmental activism. Sustainability isn't "taught" on MiniMonos; it's normalised. Kids quickly realise that if they don't clean the lagoon, the fish don't come back. If they don't do their recycling, their treehouses get messy.
At MiniMonos, we do everything possible to reinforce the need to take real-world action. We turned off the servers for Earth Hour, and every new membership provides clean drinking water for children in India. When we hit our first 50 Gold members, we adopted an orangutan baby for a year.
Of course, the greatest reward for what we do comes from the players themselves, like this comment we received from one of our members: "Thank you everyone for all you guys have done on MiniMonos and put the time and your heart in the game to make it the best it can be for everyone along with helping unfortunate kids in India and to give them hope! :D These recent updates really showed me more about how charitable the game is and helpful, not like a regular virtual world game where we would just play and the money is mainly to keep the game running. I love the whole clean water supply for kids in India and can't wait to see the adopted orangutan baby!"
Here's what else you can do:
1. Tell us what you think of MiniMonos Island, so far. At the top of each page on MiniMonos Island is a text box for you to give us feedback. Simply go to the home page, create a monkey avatar to explore and play on the island, and let us know what you think!.
2. Support MiniMonos development with a donation.
Thanks and have a bananalicious day!
