Mobile Mini Circus for Afghanistan's children
Kabul: 
Mobile Mini Circus for Afghanistan's children would have been heretical under the Taliban, when music was banned by the Islamic fundamentalist movement and girls were banned from working in public and go to school.
But today, the circus, founded by David Mason Danish dance teacher to teach cooperation and creativity for children marked by years of war, is one of the few projects, expansion despite a decline in international aid to Afghanistan.
"left on the street, children are turning to the wrong things, becoming suicide bombers or thugs on the street," said Murtaza Nowrozi, a 18-year-old juggler from the western province of Herat. "It is better for them to go to school and join programs like this one."
Nowrozi discovered circus school, but most members are orphans or camps refugees. the most talented children were on tour in Denmark, Germany, Italy and Japan, and some remained on the draft become teachers.
Mason started the circus with his own money and got the first $ 1,000 donation in 02, the year after US forces invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban.
Despite the dangers, the project has grown so popular that it now runs in seven centers provinces and employs approximately 300 regular students. with dozens of donors and workshops to raise funds, the budget is close to $ 500,000 and his tours of 25 of the 34 provinces of the country have reached nearly 3 million people.
In the eastern parts of the country, girls do not meet. In southern ultraconservative executed performance without music.Passages the Qur'an are still recited at the beginning.
"We do things in a very Afghan and Islamic way," Mason said, noting that the entire circus staff, children and customs originate in the country. "We are not trying to come up with new ideas unfamiliar to the Afghans"
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