![]() ![]() ![]() The work can be strenuous and although the extreme settings can be difficult for those who have never experienced extreme poverty or human suffering, feedback on these missions is exuberantly positive, with deep impact on volunteers’ personal development and world view. Typically we clown in 2-3 sites during the daytime, and meet in evenings for sharing, learning and fun. We work with sponsors (often clown organizations) in host countries to develop itineraries and logistics in coordination with GO!CLOWNS staff. We lead 6-10 GO!CLOWNS missions each year, lasting from 6 to 15 days, involving 10-100 clown volunteers. Volunteers from all walks of life almost universally experience GO!CLOWNS missions as deep, fulfilling, beautiful once-in-a-lifetime experiences-a feeling echoed by the thousands of people touched by this outreach. A GO!CLOWNS mission is an immersion in joyful altruistic social action a traveling performance troupe an antidote to burnout an intensive experience in the healing power of community, carpenters on a building project painters painting houses and murals clowns teaching children art, play, theater, music a “playshop” in compassionate, caring service an improvisational experimental theater or as fun, mind- stretching, heart- breaking, and heart -opening.
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