Performing Arts Group Sirqus Alfon travel to Kenya. For three weeks, they will work with a group of orphans in the village of Orongo outside Kisumu. The goal is to create a touring show along with the children and use it as a tool in the village work with the “living positive as HIV-positive.” With the show goes also a local team that provides support calls and perform voluntary HIV tests.

Behind the project is Clowns without Borders in cooperation with Orongo Widows and Orphans Group. Florence Otieno Gundo is the founder of the village’s work with HIV-affected children and widows. The involvement of widows in the 250 orphans living in Orongo, she has found a structure to get the village’s future development on its feet. With the help of Sirqus Alfon will Orongo and its surrounding areas face a completely new approach in how to work with stage design as a tool in the process.

- Sirqus Alfon’s performing arts is based on spreading positive energy. Our expressions in combination with existing children’s songs and dances create a positive force in a negatively charged and stigmatized issue, “says Erik Rosales, figure-of Sirqus Alfon.