What is Mobile Mini Circus for Children?

3. What is Mobile Mini Circus for Children? • International non profit NGO, working in Afghanistan since 2002 • Providing educational and informative entertainment for children • Educational entertaining performances, workshops and teacher trainings • Reached more than half a million children and teachers in 17 provinces in Afghanistan since 2003 • A Children Culture House where new creative educational teaching methods are constantly being developed • 80-100 well trained MMCC-junior artists performing in Kabul and abroad

5. Organizational structure • MMCC-International registered in Afghanistan. Initiated the activities - now functioning as a supervising umbrella organization • Afghan-MMCC established in spring 2006. Gradually taking over the responsibility • 13-15 well trained and enthusiastic Afghan staff • 8 young Afghan trainers assisting to teach circus, acrobatic, painting and radio

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7. MMCC’s Children Culture House is the base for all activities • Since November 2003 MMCC is running a Culture House for Children in Karte-Se in Kabul • In the school season from April to November 120-140 children get daily circus training in the centre • In the winter the number of children is increased to 350 of whom the most talented are invited to become part of the circus activities in the next season • The culture house also functions as a laboratory for developing of new creative and cultural ideas

9. Winter program and Children Radio • Every year MMCC run a three month winter program for 350 children • The program consist of 45 different classes with subjects from theatre, singing, circus, painting, calligraphy and acrobatic to Pashto, Quran and English among many others • MMCC also have a very active group of children journalists who are making high quality children radio programs

11. MMCC’s talented children artists perform in Kabul • MMCC have 80-100 talented children artists, who get training on daily bases in the MMCC-center • In the school season the children perform at schools in Kabul on weekly bases • The children’s performances are a mix of traditional circus, comedy and educational performance pieces • MMCC’s very talented group of singing girls is an essential part of all performances

13. Financial structure • MMCC’s annual budget is roughly 200,000 USD • The budget is covered by three income sources: • Donations and funds for specific projects • Sale of educational entertaining services • General contributions including individual donations and equipment

15. Mobile educational performances in the provinces • MMCC has a well trained team of 6 professional mobile Afghan senior artists • Since 2003 the mobile artists have performed for more than half a million children in 17 provinces • All performances include one or two educational performance pieces about themes such as health issues, landmine awareness and social education • The mobile artists also conduct teacher training and workshops for children in the provinces

17. Teacher training in creative educational methods • MMCC offers training for teachers in the use of creative teaching methods • Traditional school subjects such as geography, biology, Dari and Pashto are utilized as themes for the workshops • All activities in the teacher trainings are developed in close interaction with children in MMCC’s Children Culture House.

19. MMCC activities in Bamyan • Since 2006 MMCC is gradually starting permanent activities in Bamyan • The Bamyan project functions as a base for developing methods to expand MMCC to more provinces • The aim is to provide children nd teachers of the entire region with joy, fun and education through creative methods of teaching and learning • Since spring 2007 three local Bamyan staff are being trained in MMCC’s centre in Kabul

21. Focus on disabled children • In 2006 MMCC started a project to integrate disabled children • The overall aim is to develop creative and educational methods that will enable disabled children to participate on equal bases with other children in all MMCC activities • Part of the project focuses on developing of new methods that will be utilized for making workshops for teachers and organizations working with disabled children • The most talented of the disabled children are gradually becoming part of MMCC’s junior circus • The long term goal is that the children’s performances will thereby help to create a positive image of disabled children’s capacities and resources

23. MMCC’s Super Mini Kids are the coming up stars • MMCC’s smallest children – age 4-7 years – is given a high priority as they are the absolute future of the country. • The Mini Kids take part of all daily activities at the MMCC center and perform together with the older children • The Mini Kids also have their own special program with pre-school classes and education on hygiene • In the winter-program separate classes are made for the smallest children. The classes includes theater, painting, pre-school, music and acrobatic

25. MMCC children perform abroad • In 2005 12 of the MMCC children artists performed in Germany and Denmark for two month. In 2006 a new group of seven boys and six girls visited Japan • In the tours abroad the children present a bright and colourful Afghanistan to the world outside. • The tours naturally need a lot of preparation. They thereby help to improve all parts of MMCC • A new tour to California is currently being organized for January 2008. For more information and updates about the tour please see: www.afghanmmcc.org/california

27. Sponsors and Partners are highly appreciated • MMCC only exists due to major help and generous contributions from a large number of individuals, donors and partners • We are constantly looking for new partners and sponsors to enable us to continue the activities • Any contacts and/or contributions are highly appreciated • For more information please visit: www.AfghanMMCC.org