ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how Clowns Without Borders International (CWBI) addresses the needs of children and adults in crisis settings through artistic, interactive interventions. CWBI affiliates have partnered with Non-Governmental Organisations and governmental aid groups such as Medecins Sans Frontieres, UNHCR, UNICEF, Plan International and Save the Children as they follow the model that has been developed by the Child Protection Working Group. The high-level partnerships frequently occur when a large organization reaches out to a CWBI affiliate and asks for their services in a crisis zone. Funding for CWBI work has come from both unusual and more traditional modes. Individual donors who believe in the work of the clowns, parents who may have witnessed their own child’s suffering who then saw the effect a clown had on their child, and the eccentric affluent have all, in many ways, supported the work of CWBI.
