Circus camp in Rwanda

Circus joy and personal responsibility in Rwanda

Baho Neza’s circus camp is currently underway in Rwanda. The ambassadors are running camps in four different villages, with each camp lasting two days. Around 30 children take part each day, which means that just over 240 children get the opportunity to join.

The children get to try acrobatics, games and circus exercises, but the camps are about much more than circus. The ambassadors also talk with the children about joy, the body and health, and about the importance of keeping Rwanda clean. Among other things, the children learn why plastic should not be thrown into nature and how littering affects the environment. When the ambassadors ask the children, they can now explain for themselves why plastic in nature is a problem.

The ambassadors take responsibility

It is important to emphasize that this year’s circus camp is the ambassadors’ own initiative and wish. They themselves wanted to organize the camps and do something similar to what has been carried out over the past three years, when Clowns Without Borders supported the circus camps for children in Rwanda.

This year, the ambassadors have planned and organized the camps themselves, set the budget, distributed tasks and taken responsibility for implementation. They have done this on their own, with support and guidance from Mudi.

This is an important development in Baho Neza’s work. By taking responsibility themselves, the ambassadors gain experience in organization, finance, leadership and project implementation. They do not only become leaders for the children during the activities, but also people who can independently drive and further develop the work.

A greeting from Rwanda to Sweden

The ambassadors also wanted to do something special for the children in Sweden. Therefore, the children in Rwanda will record a short video greeting for the Swedish children who took part in the circus camp in Hacksta last week.

In this way, the connection between the children in Rwanda and Sweden continues – exactly in the spirit that the ambassadors themselves wished for when they took the initiative for this year’s camp.

In this way, the circus becomes much more than acrobatics and games. It becomes a tool for joy, health, community, learning and personal responsibility – and for building bridges between children in Rwanda and Sweden.