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    Clowns Without Borders USA and Pasos de Payasos Colombia will be collaborating again to bring smiles to communities in Dosquebradas, Risaralda, Colombia.  This area with a population of 200,000 has seen years of the damaging impacts of forced displacement that ruptures family dynamics, narcotrafficking  and influxes of child labor.  Pasos de Payasos formed in [...]

Tim is representing CWB this year at the Encuentro, teaching, presenting and facilitating interventions a la Clowns Without Borders. CWB is grateful to the organizers and inspiring forces behind the Encuentro. The Clown Encuentro is a prime example of sustainability in community based clowning and social circus.

Building on the successful initial project in Bogota in November 2009, CWB returns to Colombia in 2011 to bring relief to the vulnerable children of Colombia.

Colombia has seen as many as 3.8 million people driven from their homes by violence brought on by paramilitary and rebel forces battling for territorial control with the government resulting in Colombia ranking third in the world after Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo for the largest number of internally displaced people (IDPs). This year, Clowns Without Borders-USA will initiate a Project to meet the young people of these communities and other vulnerable children.