Our Travels
India
We have traveled to India almost every year since 2003 performing in orphanages, hospitals, Leper Colonies, Centers for Cerebral Palsy children, Day Programs for the mentally ill, homes for sexually trafficked girls rescued back from the sex trade, centers for …
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Uganda and South Sudan
The small plane taxied to a stop on the grass run way in Adjumani in Northern Uganda near the South Sudan border. We were met by representatives of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) with whom we spent three weeks working …
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El Salvador
We have been going to El Salvador three times a year since 2004. We collaborate with The Salvadoran Rural Health Association (Asaprosar) in Santa Ana. On the first trip, we performed in most of the twenty-five Pre-Schools Asaprosar has built …
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The Former Yugoslavia
We have traveled numerous times to the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Our first trip to Kosovo and Macedonia, performing 15 shows in the refugee camps in 2001, inspired us to begin Magicians Without Borders. For an account of the inspired …
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Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Cote d’Ivoire
In 2005, we were asked by a medical anthropologist, Esmee de Jong, working for The United Nations, if we could create a magic show to teach refugee children about HIV/AIDS. Esmee was particularly interested in focusing on the problem of …
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Thailand and Burma (Myanmar)
In response to the horrific Tsunami of 2004 that devastated much of Southeast Asia we traveled to Thailand and Burma performing in camps and centers set up for the homeless survivors of the Tsunami. We traveled for a month performing …
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Bogata, Colombia
For a year Ryan Bart sent e-mails to Magicians Without Borders asking how he could get involved in the work we were doing. He was an undergraduate pre-med student at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA and has been a magician …
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