(11 Mar 2025)
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Rio de Janeiro – 11 March 2025
1. Various of clowns from the "Roda de Palhacos" cultural project performing and interacting with sick children on the pediatric ward during a carnival party at a Servidores do Estado Federal Hospital in Rio de Janeiro
2. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Moniky Fernanda de Nazaré Moreira, 21-year-old, mother of a child hospitalized in the hospital:
"Staying in the hospital with a hospitalized child is exhausting. We really need this to cheer up the kids. He loves a bit of chaos, he had so much fun."
3. Various of clowns
4. Hospital staffs dancing with the clowns
5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Ioma Rodrigues Klemz, 58-year-old pediatric doctor:
"It’s great for the whole team, not just for the kids. They bring joy to an environment where we deal with pain so often. The children are able to express their feelings, and it’s a moment of happiness and celebration that happens here."
6. Clowns and staff dancing
STORYLINE:
A troupe of clowns and musicians sung Carnival songs to sick children in a Rio de Janeiro hospital on Tuesday, bringing the ebullient festivities normally found on the streets to the young patients and their carers on the pediatric ward.
Musicians, clowns and even a standard-bearer danced their way through the corridors decorated with streamers and masks, inviting children, parents, nurses and doctors into a merry dance and moment of celebration.
“It’s a really good feeling, because staying in a hospital with a child is tiring,” said Moniky Fernanda de Nazaré Moreira, as she balanced her one-year-old son on her hip. “We need this to cheer the child up – and he loves a bit of chaos, so he had a lot of fun.”
While the trumpet, drum and banjo players played classic Carnival tunes, the clowns sought to create an individual interaction with each child on the wing – paying them a kind of attention that for once wasn’t medical.
“It really helps children improve,” said Ioma Rodrigues Klemz, a doctor on the ward.
The ‘Clown circle’ project in Rio proposes activities on a weekly basis, making the most of calendar events such as Carnival to put together themed performances.
In Brazil, Carnival officially ended with Ash Wednesday last week, but such technicalities didn’t stop the cheerful group.
AP Video shot by Mario Lobao
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