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Pictorial/Amharic Chess Instructions?
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Hi there!
I'm going on a missions trip to Ethiopia within the next few weeks. We're going to be working with both a church in the local area, and more for the purpose of this question, with one of the local orphanages. The orphanages there are overflowing and the caretakers are spread very thin. They do the best that they can but they only have so many hands to go around. Of course, we can't completely solve the problem with our short time there, but one piece of the puzzle is that some of the older kids often don't have anything productive to do, and of course that boredom sometimes leads to bad things happening.
I was thinking chess would be a good idea to try bringing there, as I can pack a lot of the portable boards/pieces in my bag. While few things along these lines will probably hit the success of the chess village (http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170511-the-indian-village-addicted-to-chess), I hope it can at least fill the gap a bit! Some folks there speak English, but I'm looking for Amharic/pictorial no-text cheat sheets/instructions that I can leave behind just to make sure the game stays true/balanced after we've left.
If you have any ideas or leads, please feel free to let me know! Thank you guys in advance for your time!