CIRQUE DU MONDE
providing youths-at-risk a sense of purpose & achievement through performing arts

Cirque du Monde or Circus of the World, serves as a springboard for youths in difficulty to take some positive action that would improve their lives. Its strategy to motivate these youths is to build their self-esteem by helping them experience proficiency in circus arts. It is hoped that when these young people start feeling more positive about themselves, they would also feel more hopeful about their future.

To date, Cirque du Monde has over 40 partners around the world and in Singapore it is Beyond. As we are always looking for better ways to work with youths-at-risk, the Cirque du Monde Programme fits well with us. Circus arts require discipline, teamwork and physical activity and these help character building. It is also an apt physical activity for our female youths who do not fit into our other physical education activities.

Cirque du Soliel sponsors this programme. Cirque du Soleil, the highly successful French Canadian ‘people only’ circus was once a group of struggling street performers. To remember its humble beginnings, they contribute 1 % of their annual profits towards community service programmes around the world. As its founders identify with the difficulties street youths in big cities faced, they created a programme to help such youths through the learning of circus arts.

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