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February 13th, 2024
For 35 years with Maria and her family, we have coordinated and carried out many projects and clown tours in Russia. With Maria’s Children organization and Patch’s Gesundheit! foundation has made dreams come true. When we started visiting the orphanages…
November 29th, 2023
Drawing will be held during our December Patch Chat Livestream on Saturday, December 9th at 11:30AM central We are still raising funds for our beloved Farm House on the Gesundheit! Institute land in West Virginia. Needs include new floor, replacement…
November 6th, 2023
To acknowledge lives lost and hope for the future, overdose memorial trees were installed in eight counties through a Jobs & Hope West Virginia project supported by the Cacapon Institute. Gesundheit! Institute served as the planting site for Pocahontas County…
March 25th, 2022
Our red-nosed volunteer commitment began when Italo met Patch Adams in 1994 at a holistic medicine convention in Milan, Italy. Patch – a doctor, clown, artist, and “shaman” – was in Italy for the first time to present the revolutionary…
February 14th, 2022
Dear Friends, our precious brother Carl Hammerschlag has died. Carl was a clown, a doctor, and he was my friend. We go back decades. After our first meeting, we shared our love for each other’s company and our shared projects….
January 21st, 2022
For 51 wonderful years, we at Gesundheit want to thank you all for your ongoing support! We cannot wait to invite you all back to attend our clowning trips or educational programs. Your donations have kept us going strong. Please…
June 2nd, 2021
Dear Friends, I’ve heard there is an interest in my state of health. I feel fabulous. On March 2, after three extensive surgeries on my left foot for MRSA, I realized that what was left of the foot meant that…
May 27th, 2021
As we enter into the busy, bountiful, verdant season that is early summer we are basking in the beauty that surrounds us—feeling grateful for this land and all she gives. The trees are blooming and the wildflowers are painting the…
January 5th, 2021
Hello, my friends, Patch Adams here, writing to you from the office of my lovely partner Susan. This year has been an interesting one. Every day is a gift and during this Pandemic, which has caused so much pain and…
September 3rd, 2020
Since the early 1990s the School for Designing a Society has offered intensive summer programs on the land in West Virginia. Inspired by the Gesundheit vision of community as health care, we offered a crash course on dreaming of social…
August 21st, 2020
Hello—greetings from Adam + Holly on the land here in Hillsboro, WV. We wanted to stop in and give a little update on what’s been happening over here this year. Another beautiful, luscious, green spring full of foraging for ramps…
February 11th, 2020
For the 11th year we traveled to the astonishing city of Quito in Ecuador, to bring ourselves, our intensions of loving and caring, our vulnerabilities, our strengths among hundreds of people in one of the most heartwarming and welcoming country…
October 21st, 2019
From 27 April to 6 May 2020, we will go with a small group of volunteer clowns to Nepal. The first stop will be in Kathmandu, where we will stay at a B&B facility which is also a…
August 28th, 2019
The first European symposium of clown volunteers from all around Europe recently ended, bringing together our clown tribe, the E.G.G.S – European Gesundheit Group Supporters. We met in Cerro Veronese, Verona, Italy, from July 18th to July 21st, 2019. With…
August 8th, 2019
Maria’s Children’s Summer Camp – Uchma , Volga River July – August 2019. From 22 July to 6 August we attended the Summer Camp near the small village of Uchma on the Volga River, designed by Maria’s Children, a humanitarian…
June 4th, 2019
Hi friends—this is me, Ginevra Sanguigno, of the workshop “The Laughing Body the Art of Care”. Patch Adams has asked me to tell you a little about myself, and why I created this workshop. Years ago, I first visited the…
June 4th, 2019
Dear you, who is reading this article, My name is Dario and I’m the coordinator of Clowning & Caring in Costa Rica. But only 10 years ago I had never clowned before in my life! It was August 2009, I was about…
May 11th, 2019
Patch Adams led another amazing humanitarian trip to Morocco from March 27-April 4. This third annual tour included over 15 clowns from the USA, Italy, Russia, Germany and Japan. Moroccan friends of Gesundheit Foundation helped coordinate and participated along with their family members…
February 20th, 2019
Our bonds are growing stronger, our children are growing up together in a team where care, love, and attention CAN and DO shape the physical reality of an environment for a moment, or a week, or change the course of…
January 20th, 2019
My first introduction to the United States came shortly after I moved to Virginia, from an army base in Germany. Everyone in the army was like family, brothers in arms, they would say. While I was living in Virginia, I…
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