Circus Kathmandu, Rebuilding Dreams
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Circus Kathmandu - helping young people rebuild their future.
http://www.circuskathmandu.com/
In 2010 thirteen young Nepalese people who had been rescued from trafficking and the streets turned to contemporary circus to build their self-esteem and to chart a path out of stigmatism and poverty.
Anna has been working along side these young people for the past few years, and is now a part of the UK based management team. Anna has set this page up and it is currently the official Circus Kathmandu fundraising page- all donations go directly to Circus Kathmandu.
For the beginning of this year Kathmandu were building their reputation and the corporate events market for them to be able to be seen as professional entertainers, not just ex-slave children (or worse).
The project was doing so well. Their dreams were just starting to fly through the air, quite literally.But disaster has struck their lives once more.
The earthquake (and continued after shocks) in Nepal have devastated the entire country and claimed many lives. We are in many ways very fortunate, none of the young people that I have worked with have died.
In a country which has no social care for people who are struggling and very limited access to basic facilities such as water, food and electricity at the best of times, this is a crisis.
We are helping the young people from the hardest backgrounds we have ever known, stories that would break your heart to a thousand pieces, build themselves up and then start to form their own business so they can stand up and themselves raise new successors.
It’s going to be a long time before people are going to be having big parties and circus fun again in Nepal. Especially in an industry which still has such a bad reputation there due to it’s association with trafficking. This means our income genrating capacity has been hugely reduced, and without fundrainding we simply will not survive.
But what Circus Kathmandu do have is an amazing capacity for outreach and we feel so glad that we are able to contribute to the amazing earth quake relief efforts that are currently underway. And this is thanks to kindness and generosity of all the people that have made donations so far- week by week we are able to keep Circus Kathmandu going and have already started to do outreach work in communities most hit by the earthquake. We are collaborating with NGOs and education programmes to bring play therapy, and light relief to the children that need it most, and also to continue with our anti trafifcking advocacy- human trafficking is predicted to rise considerably so this work has never been more important.
We are operating on a shoe string- hand to mouth. We have no backers. We have no sponsorship. We need all the help we can get.
Please, if you can, donate to help us keep Circus Kathmandu going and to cacade our outreach to help the lives of as many people we can thoughout Nepal.
Every single donation, however small, will make a life changing difference to these young people and hopefully, many, many more.
And if even if you cannot donate, please pass this appeal on.
http://www.circuskathmandu.com/
In 2010 thirteen young Nepalese people who had been rescued from trafficking and the streets turned to contemporary circus to build their self-esteem and to chart a path out of stigmatism and poverty.
Anna has been working along side these young people for the past few years, and is now a part of the UK based management team. Anna has set this page up and it is currently the official Circus Kathmandu fundraising page- all donations go directly to Circus Kathmandu.
For the beginning of this year Kathmandu were building their reputation and the corporate events market for them to be able to be seen as professional entertainers, not just ex-slave children (or worse).
The project was doing so well. Their dreams were just starting to fly through the air, quite literally.But disaster has struck their lives once more.
The earthquake (and continued after shocks) in Nepal have devastated the entire country and claimed many lives. We are in many ways very fortunate, none of the young people that I have worked with have died.
In a country which has no social care for people who are struggling and very limited access to basic facilities such as water, food and electricity at the best of times, this is a crisis.
We are helping the young people from the hardest backgrounds we have ever known, stories that would break your heart to a thousand pieces, build themselves up and then start to form their own business so they can stand up and themselves raise new successors.
It’s going to be a long time before people are going to be having big parties and circus fun again in Nepal. Especially in an industry which still has such a bad reputation there due to it’s association with trafficking. This means our income genrating capacity has been hugely reduced, and without fundrainding we simply will not survive.
But what Circus Kathmandu do have is an amazing capacity for outreach and we feel so glad that we are able to contribute to the amazing earth quake relief efforts that are currently underway. And this is thanks to kindness and generosity of all the people that have made donations so far- week by week we are able to keep Circus Kathmandu going and have already started to do outreach work in communities most hit by the earthquake. We are collaborating with NGOs and education programmes to bring play therapy, and light relief to the children that need it most, and also to continue with our anti trafifcking advocacy- human trafficking is predicted to rise considerably so this work has never been more important.
We are operating on a shoe string- hand to mouth. We have no backers. We have no sponsorship. We need all the help we can get.
Please, if you can, donate to help us keep Circus Kathmandu going and to cacade our outreach to help the lives of as many people we can thoughout Nepal.
Every single donation, however small, will make a life changing difference to these young people and hopefully, many, many more.
And if even if you cannot donate, please pass this appeal on.
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Anna Strickland
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