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!