Clown Doctors are professional performers who visit 20 hospitals around Australia treating children with medicine of a different kind…doses of fun and laughter.
Kraft Foods has partnered with the Humour Foundation since 2004 as the Principle and Strategic Partner.
Our shared goal is to establish Clown Doctors in all major children’s hospitals in Australia, seven days a week.
Since 2006 we have raised over $500,000 through a key fundraising initiative in Tasmania, the Miles for Smiles walk. Our support also extends to funding of Clown Rounds, providing executive support and in-kind product.
“When I started being a Clown Doctor I would look at the real doctors and think ‘they’re the ones doing the real work and we are just mucking around.’ After 10 years of that mucking around bringing so much joy; so much relief; so many parental cries of gratitude for ‘making my child laugh for the first time in days’; and so many words of thanks from the kids, siblings, parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, cousins, neighbours, pets, carers and staff from all levels of the hospital food chain I can happily reassess my original point of view. The real doctors are still doing real work. And so are we – real work that involves a certain amount of mucking around and a huge amount of sensitivity, skill, spirit, imagination and love.” Dr Tickle, Melbourne Clown Doctor
For more information, visit the Humour Foundation website.