* Improve the emotional wellbeing of children and caregivers affected by crisis in Southern Africa and around the world through humor, laughter, and play.
*Raise our society's awareness domestically and internationally about conditions encountered in areas of crisis.
* Provide professional development and empowerment opportunities to local artists and improve community based organizations' capacity to provide emotional relief.
* Maintain a spirit of creativity, play, humour, joy, peace, compassion, and loving kindness in all our endeavors.
Welcome to Clowns Without Borders South Africa!
Welcome! Siyakwemukela! Welkom! Kamohelo!
Clowns Without Borders-South Africa is an artist-led humanitarian organization dedicated to improving the psychosocial condition of children and communities in areas of crisis through laughter and play.
We also seek to raise our society’s awareness of conditions in these areas.
Founded in 2004, CWB-South Africa has provided emotional relief to over 140,000 children and caregivers. Recent expeditions include South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Israel/Palestine.
CWB-South Africa maintains a spirit of peace, joy, compassion and loving kindness in all of our endeavors.
Please feel free to browse our website to find out more information about Projects, Partners, Press, and ways you can support our work!
Thank you! Siyabonga! Dankie! Rea Leboha!
Latest news
- 5 weeks 1 day agoCWBSA thrilled to announce that we have been extremely busy sending clowns here, there, and almost everywhere!14 weeks 1 day agoClowns Without Borders South Africa has recently started a year-round project with Woza Moya in Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal thanks to a grant from ArtAction. Part of this project is an afterschool circus programme for vulnerable children and youth who are affected by HIV/AIDS and poverty.
20 weeks 8 hours agoCWBSA is off to Lebanon!
In collaboration with our sister chapters, Sweden and Belgium, Clowns Without Borders South Africa artist and director, Jamie McLaren Lachman, will be going to Lebanon to work with Palestinian refugees.
We will be in Beirut and the southern Palestinian refugee camps from February 21st to March 2nd.22 weeks 5 days ago
Clowns Without Borders announces a new programme: Project Ixopo!29 weeks 3 days ago
世界には紛争や貧困、ケガや病気などで苦しんでいる人達がたくさんいます。生きていくことに精一杯で、笑うことを忘れてしまう人達もいます。私達はそんな子ども達や村人に、笑顔や楽しさを届けているピエロの団体です。
Journals
- 5 weeks 4 days ago
Clowns Without Borders South Africa is collaborating on a project in Sudan working with our sister chapter, CWB-USA, the International Rescue Committee, and Confident Children Out of Conflict to provide emotional relief through to refugees from the current conflict. For 14 days in the grueling hot sun, Gavin Stockden has joined Gwen Rooker and Elisa Lane from the United States performing and teaching workshops in both Kenya and Southern Sudan (Juba and Aweil).14 weeks 1 day ago
The day after we showed up in Malealea was a national holiday and we got the chance to join the festivities at the neighboring school. It was overwhelming to see the energy and musicality these wonderful people have. With the breathtaking scenery surrounding us, the day seemed magical.15 weeks 5 days agoI am sitting in the amphitheater of the Maluti mountains in Malealea, Lesotho surrounded by blue grey misty peaks finally taking the opportunity to reflect on my recent expedition in Lebanon at the end of February (apologies for the late posting!). It is thousands of miles and another world away from where myself, Esther Haddad from Clowns and Magicians Without Borders, and Ellen, our photographer, spent a week working with youth in Palestinian refugee camps.
36 weeks 4 days ago
THE CLOWNS EMBARK! - October 11th, 2008 - Elandskop, KwaZulu-Natal
(Excepts from Alice's journals to the Calgary Herald)
I've embarked on my 4th expedition with Clowns Without Borders South Africa. Our goal: to bring joy and laughter to children whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS.50 weeks 19 hours ago
A Winter Expedition in Lesotho? Am I crazy? My fingers are so cold, they’re numb, and my toes feel like they’re about to fall off… I miss my Mom… I lie in bed until the last minute, warm some milk in the outside kitchen, put on the pieces of my layered clown costume bit by bit, shivering. On the drive to the clinic we’re going to do a clown visit at, we pass through vast expanses of land, interweaved with deep gorges. Today it is dark cold, yesterday it was dry and browny- green, the other day, the rain looked grey.
Current Projects
May: Lesotho, Sudan, Ixopo
June: Ingwavuma, Ixopo
July: Swaziland, Ingwavuma
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