Clowns bring a moment of comfort to war victims
In traumatic times, Israel’s medical clowns use humor to bring out the potential for courage and positive energy, in an effort to build hope and resilience.
In traumatic times, Israel’s medical clowns use humor to bring out the potential for courage and positive energy, in an effort to build hope and resilience.
More than a painted face and funny shoes, medical clowns help patients through advocacy, empowerment, motivation and problem solving.
As the war in Ukraine continues to expand six months after it began, Israeli aid organizations ramp up operations to help deal with the unprecedented humanitarian disaster.
In honor of World Humanitarian Day, ISRAEL21c and SID-Israel present a slideshow depicting the lifesaving work of Israeli organizations across the globe.
Israeli medical clowns are bringing a much-needed moment of levity and calm to Ukrainian refugees in seven shelters in Moldova.
Patients can’t help but smile when they see a red nose stuck on an N95 mask behind a plastic face shield covered in silly stickers.
Big shoes, red nose, makeup and… a face mask. This is what it’s like to be a hospital clown in the time of coronavirus.
A survey of one Israeli hospital’s oncology staff on the impact of Dream Doctors medical clowns reveals some eye-opening insights.
Two Israeli medical clowns went on a five-day mission to help mental-health professionals help the island’s displaced and traumatized children.
Study performed in Israeli hospital-based special-ed program is first controlled research examining medical clowning as therapy for children with ASD.
‘Olive’ and ‘Yoyo’ travel to MagiCAMP in Romania to help put smiles on the faces of children facing life-threatening illness.
Dream Doctors take the skills they hone daily in Israeli hospitals and apply them at scenes of despair, death and destruction across the globe.
When a therapeutic clown accompanied children treated in sex-abuse and gastro clinics, the procedure was easier for patient, parent and medical staff.
A group of Yazidi refugees from northern Iraq travels to Jerusalem to become the first from the war-torn region to be trained in medical clowning.
A crowd of 18,000 at AIPAC Policy Conference sees the reality behind the headlines taking place every day in Israeli streets, hospitals and groves.