Assistance to Civil Society Organizations in Palestine (Phase II): Red Noses Clown Doctors

Palestine

Red Noses Clowndoctors Austria (RNA) was founded in 1994 as one of the first hospital clown programmes in Europe. By bringing humor, solace and laughter into the hospital, clowndoctors boost the resistance and willpower of their patients. RNA has so far developed regular programmes of the highest quality for children, geriatric patients and rehabilitation patients, as well as outreach programmes for selective one-off visits in other social and medical institutions such as asylum centres, orphanages, mother-child homes. OFID extended a grant to implement the "Therapeutic Clown Program, Palestine" for children suffering from severe post-trauma stress disorders and other mood and anxiety disorders, resulting from many years of war, economic sanctions and displacement of their homes and familiar surroundings.