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Helping Hands, Japan

Every Christmas, volunteers at Helping Hands visit several large hospitals in Hamono, Japan to perform a clown show. The clowns perform skits, sing songs, and play games together with the children at the hospital.

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Spreading the “Smiling Bug” at Chiba Children’s Hospital, Japan

Robert McNair

Every year at Christmas, our clown therapy team does visitation work at various institutions in our area and the Chiba Children’s Hospital definitely ranks as our favorite. In October the head nurse of the hospital called, asking us to please return this Christmas with our clown therapy team. So on December 17th, we piled all our clowns into vans, and off we went to bring Christmas cheer to hospital rooms filled with happily surprised little eyes and big smiles. Read more about Spreading the “Smiling Bug” at Chiba Children’s Hospital, Japan

Christmas at the Ibaraki Children’s Hospital, Japan

Hiroshi Kawashima

On December 11th, our volunteers at Helping Hands (a branch of The Family International) visited the Ibaraki Prefect Children’s Hospital to perform our clown show. Our clowns performed skits, sang songs, and played games together with the children at the hospital. The children were thrilled to be visited by our happy and energetic clowns. Read more about Christmas at the Ibaraki Children’s Hospital, Japan