* 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 115,000 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! Ke a Leboha!
Latest news
- 11 weeks 4 days ago
We have just returned from a very cold but equally productive expedition in Lesotho after 2 weeks of performing at schools, hospitals, and clinics, teaching workshops, and desperately trying to keep warm. Since it was school holidays, we had the opportunity to partner with Medecins Sans Frontieres for the first time in the region. Hopefully, it is a beginning to future collaborations.
- 28 weeks 2 days ago
CWB South Africa and CWB Sweden are collaborating on a year-round project to build local capacity for psychosocial support through play of organizations in Swaziland. We will be teaching facilitators how to implement Project Njabulo, our HIV/AIDS programme, in communities working with the Lutheran Development Service and Swaziland for Positive Living. This project has been funded by SVT (Swedish Television). Stay tuned for updates from the field!
- 43 weeks 22 hours ago
We are currently raising funds for an ambitious program of action in 2008. Along with continuing to improve our ability to provide emotional relief to communities affected by HIV/AIDS, poverty, and violence in South Africa, Swaziland, and Lesotho, CWB-South Africa will be expanding our projects in the following areas:
Journals
- 11 weeks 4 days 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.
- 12 weeks 22 hours ago
Recently, South Africa has experienced an internal refugee due to the xenophobic violence in May. 1000s of families from all over Africa have been displaced with their homes destroyed and lives traumatized by the violence. While the response of the government was tepid at best, many individuals and organisations have responded to the crisis with exceptional generosity and compassion.28 weeks 2 days ago
We have just completed our first week of a month-long expedition in Swaziland in partnership with CWB Sweden. We are working with the Lutheran Development Service, a community-based relief organization, in a village in the drought stricken southeastern part of the country where over 45% of the population is HIV positive. As there is no other psychosocial support work happening in Swaziland, we have been received with great enthusiasm and excitement by the community and LDS staff.
30 weeks 4 days agoTo get to some of the schools on this expedition we've had to travel on paths that are not really roads at all, but rather just tracks through the bush made by cars. If it wasn't for the guides we've had to pick up along the way, we would not have found these schools at all, as the tracks fork repeatedly and are crossed often by other tracks leading from household to household.32 weeks 2 days ago
Ingwavuma, KZN - February 23rd, 2008 - Bongekile Mabuya:
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