Dream Doctors visit Ratnapark, Kathmandu
14 May 2015. The Dream Doctors Project, a non-profit organization established in 2002, integrates professional medical clowning into the medical services provided at Israeli hospitals. TDDP funds around 100 medical clowns in different hospitals, and regular meetings encourage the sharing of ideas and practices among them. As well as providing their unique form of therapy to both the young and the old at home, the DDs have also traveled overseas in the wake of disasters - such as Thailand after the 2004 tsunami and Haiti after the 2007 earthquake - to assist.
A team of medical clowns from DD came to Nepal for 2 weeks and visited numerous camps and organisations hosting vulnerable and traumatised children and adults. I was lucky enough to be invited to join them for a day of improv, slapstick and bubble-blowing. The smiles on the faces of all who came in contact with Yaron and Nimrod - aka Sancho and Max - tell the rest of the story.
Dream Doctors visit Ratnapark, Kathmandu
14 May 2015. The Dream Doctors Project, a non-profit organization established in 2002, integrates professional medical clowning into the medical services provided at Israeli hospitals. TDDP funds around 100 medical clowns in different hospitals, and regular meetings encourage the sharing of ideas and practices among them. As well as providing their unique form of therapy to both the young and the old at home, the DDs have also traveled overseas in the wake of disasters - such as Thailand after the 2004 tsunami and Haiti after the 2007 earthquake - to assist.
A team of medical clowns from DD came to Nepal for 2 weeks and visited numerous camps and organisations hosting vulnerable and traumatised children and adults. I was lucky enough to be invited to join them for a day of improv, slapstick and bubble-blowing. The smiles on the faces of all who came in contact with Yaron and Nimrod - aka Sancho and Max - tell the rest of the story.