Hello
I just finished a cross continental adventure with a group of French techno heads called World Traveller Adventures. They have members from Teknocrats, Tomahawk and IOT tekno crews. They brought me along to teach circus workshops and clown around with the children. We traveled
overland from the South of France to Mongolia in 3 huge trucks carrying 7 tons of donations to an orphanage in Ulan Batur, the capital of Mongolia. We drove through France, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Siberia, and Mongolia. We traveled something like 7000 miles. Upon arrival in Mongolia we distributed half of the donations to the main orphanage in the center of the capital and proceeded to go to the summer camp outside of the city to distribute the remainder of the humantarian aid. The contributions consisted of clothes, shoes, blankets, art supplies, toys, and much needed medical supplies. The children were so happy to recieve these gifts. Many were wearing shoes much too large for the small feet. Some had sandals much to small for their large feet. Most did not even have a toy. The day after, the adults at the summer camp made us a large feast of traditional Mongolian food and we drank fermented horse´s milk. Our days with the children were filled with circus trainings, games, and fixing playground equipment. The evenings were filled with movies complete with projector, dance parties with a great soundsystem and live djs, and circus with fire performance, rope walking, and the tiny bike ramp of doom. Many of the children learned how to juggle, walk the rope, and use a diablo. Overall it was an incredibly successful project bringing smiles and laughter to all of the children.

WTA is planning another trip like this one through South America in the
next year or two which they have invited me to be a part of. I will send
updates about those future plans in future emails. Two years previous
they traveled from France around the horn of Africa to bring donations to
schools on the Ivory Coast. Their projects are funded by private
donations and French governmental grants. WTA has a website mainly in
French, but with some pages translated at:

http://www.worldtravelleradventures.org/

If you can read French, you can check out the blog on the Le Monde website
at:

http://missionmongolie.blog.lemonde.fr/missionmongolie/

(Le Monde is like the New York Times of France)

Now I am in Serbia preparing for the 4th annual Kosovo tour with the group
I founded here "The Bread and Cheese Circus". We have been going to
the war zone of Kososo in the former Yugoslavian Republic and making free
circus shows for the refugee children down there. It is a group that has
had 5 Serbians and 3 Americans working with the children. We make shows,
teach workshops, and play soccer. I will send another update later as
this years project progresses. Independent Arts and Media has sposored us
as a nonprofit and we have been maintaining the circus on private
donations and are always looking for new donors.

Please feel free to forward this to others you think would be interested
in hearing about this story. I lost alot of emails recently and so am
unable to contact everyone I would like to. If you do not want to recieve
updates from my World Circus just send me back an email saying so and I
will remove you.

Peace,
Joe Mama the clown