Dear friends, family and fellow human beings! I have just returned from Haiti and three amazing, intense weeks working with a wonderful group of people, experiencing and learning so much. I had no internet access while there and so have not been able to offer any updates until now that I'm back. In the next few days I will be posting several reports chronicling our experience.
There's so much to cover and so much to share and so much to process. I'm still taking it all in.
The last few days I have just been at home digesting the experience and recovering -- having been sick I needed to indulge in some much needed rest. I was sick almost the entire journey with a nasty growing bronchial infection (which at first I thought was allergies but then got worse)! It was challenging to keep up with the intensive schedule and the highly energetic, physical work of clowning around -- especially as I am a very high energy clown in this work -- but I trudged on! I was in Haiti to work, not to rest! No matter if I was hacking up a storm or half in a fog, nothing could take away from the powerful experience that this has been.
Stay tuned for full report.
Off I go to HAITI !
I am off on a new venture, this time to Haiti. Together with three team mates, as part of Clowns Without Borders, we will spend three weeks in Les Cayes and Grand Goave, working with survivors of the earthquake and providing psychosocial support through the joy and play of clowning. We are partnering with Terre des Hommes, an international aid organization working to improve the living conditions of disadvantaged children. For this particular project, we will be working with local community leaders -- adults -- and training them to do clown and circus arts with the children on an ongoing basis. We will also play with the kids. Together we will all perform in a show for the community!
This time there will be a film team following us on our journey. They are working on a documentary about Clowns Without Borders. You can check out their project here: http://www.sendintheclowns.org
We leave tomorrow September 4 and return on September 25. I will keep you updated, hopefully during our time there, but definitely upon my return. I am not sure if I will have internet access. We are roughing it and will be staying in tents. Like everybody else. I am not sure how far things have come in the recovery process. I suspect not very far. I do not have much logicistical information as of yet, as things on the ground are being arranged by our partner organization. We will find out what the situation is once we are there. We're just throwing ourselves into the fray -- and hoping to make a difference!
This time there will be a film team following us on our journey. They are working on a documentary about Clowns Without Borders. You can check out their project here: http://www.sendintheclowns.org
We leave tomorrow September 4 and return on September 25. I will keep you updated, hopefully during our time there, but definitely upon my return. I am not sure if I will have internet access. We are roughing it and will be staying in tents. Like everybody else. I am not sure how far things have come in the recovery process. I suspect not very far. I do not have much logicistical information as of yet, as things on the ground are being arranged by our partner organization. We will find out what the situation is once we are there. We're just throwing ourselves into the fray -- and hoping to make a difference!
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