Sign up for a Humanitarian Clown Trip to Italy!

ginevra in kabul

Sign up for this year's trip to spread joy in Italy. This is the 6th Clown Tour in Italy. We will clown in hospitals, nursing homes, disabled centers, prisons for young people, and on the street. We will not have clown classes - this is an immersion program: the huge number of hours of experience clowning will be our best school. Read Ginevra's invitation to come on the 6th Annual Clown Trip in Italy, here.

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The Gesundheit! Hospital Project

The Gesundheit Hospital started in the 1970s with a pilot project that is described in Gesundheit! by Patch Adams, M.D., and was the basis for a motion picture. The Gesundheit Hospital is a proposal for a model health care system aimed at changing society: a forty-bed rural community hospital in West Virginia, where care is free and is based on compassion and friendship.

Read Patch's introduction to the Hospital Project.

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Lectures and Workshops

Today the Gesundheit message is spread by Dr. Patch Adams, as well as other Gesundheit speakers, in lectures and workshops offered all over the world. You can book a Gesundheit speaker to come to your area, search out a special event, for a one-in-the-world kind of experience!

You can read about Patch's speaking topics, upcoming events, and other Gesundheit speakers here.

jillian, sansanee, and martine at summer school 2005

On The Land

The future site for the Gesundheit Hospital and Phase One is currently home to a small community of our dear friends who act as ambassadors of Gesundheit, in West Virginia.