• International non profit NGO, working in Afghanistan since 2002

• Providing educational and informative entertainment for children

• Educational entertaining performances, workshops and teacher trainings

• Reached more than half a million children and teachers in 17 provinces in Afghanistan since 2003

• A Children Culture House where new creative educational teaching methods are constantly being developed

•80-100 well trained MMCC-junior artists performing in Kabul and abroad

What is Mobile Mini Circus for Children?

• MMCC-International registered in Afghanistan. Initiated the activities - now functioning as a supervising umbrella organization

• Afghan-MMCC established in spring 2006. Gradually taking over the responsibility

• 13-15 well trained and enthusiastic Afghan staff

• 8 young Afghan trainers assisting to teach circus, acrobatic, painting and radio

Organizational structure

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MMCC’s Children Culture House is the base for all activities

• Since November 2003 MMCC is running a Culture House for Children in Karte-Se in Kabul

• In the school season from April to November 120-140

children get daily circus training in the centre

• In the winter the number of children is increased to 350 of whom the most talented are invited to become part of the circus activities in the next season

• The culture house also functions as a laboratory for developing of new creative and cultural ideas

Winter program and Children Radio

• Every year MMCC run a three month winter program for 350 children

• The program consist of 45 different classes with subjects from theatre, singing, circus, painting, calligraphy and acrobatic to Pashto, Quran and English among many others

• MMCC also have a very active group of children journalists who are making high quality children radio programs

MMCC’s talented children artists perform in Kabul

• MMCC have 80-100 talented children artists, who get training on daily bases in the MMCC-center

• In the school season the children perform at schools in Kabul on weekly bases

• The children’s performances are a mix of traditional circus, comedy and educational performance pieces

• MMCC’s very talented group of singing girls is an essential part of all performances

Financial structure

• MMCC’s annual budget is roughly 200,000 USD

• The budget is covered by three income sources:

• Donations and funds for specific projects • Sale of educational entertaining services• General contributions including individual

donations and equipment

Mobile educational performances in the provinces

• MMCC has a well trained team of 6 professional mobile Afghan senior artists

• Since 2003 the mobile artists have performed for more than half a million children in 17 provinces

• All performances include one or two educational performance pieces about themes such as health issues, landmine awareness and social education

• The mobile artists also conduct teacher training and workshops for children in the provinces

Teacher training in creative educational methods

• MMCC offers training for teachers in the use of creative teaching methods

• Traditional school subjects such as geography, biology, Dari and Pashto are utilized as themes for the workshops

• All activities in the teacher trainings are developed in close interaction with children in MMCC’s Children Culture House.

MMCC activities in Bamyan

• Since 2006 MMCC is gradually starting permanent activities in Bamyan

• The Bamyan project functions as a base for developing methods to expand MMCC to more provinces

• The aim is to provide children nd teachers of the entire region with joy, fun and education through creative methods of teaching and learning

• Since spring 2007 three local Bamyan staff are being trained in MMCC’s centre in Kabul

Focus on disabled children• In 2006 MMCC started a project to integrate disabled children • The overall aim is to develop creative and educational methods that

will enable disabled children to participate on equal bases with other children in all MMCC activities

• Part of the project focuses on developing of new methods that will be utilized for making workshops for teachers and organizations working with disabled children

• The most talented of the disabled children are gradually becoming part of MMCC’s junior circus

• The long term goal is that the children’s performances will thereby help to create a positive image of disabled children’s capacities and resources

MMCC’s Super Mini Kids are the coming up stars

• MMCC’s smallest children – age 4-7 years – is given a high priority as they are the absolute future of the country.

• The Mini Kids take part of all daily activities at the MMCC center and perform together with the older children

• The Mini Kids also have their own special program with pre-school classes and education on hygiene

• In the winter-program separate classes are made for the smallest children. The classes includes theater, painting, pre-school, music and acrobatic

MMCC children perform abroad

• In 2005 12 of the MMCC children artists performed in Germany and Denmark for two month. In 2006 a new group of seven boys and six girls visited Japan

• In the tours abroad the children present a bright and colourful Afghanistan to the world outside.

• The tours naturally need a lot of preparation. They thereby help to improve all parts of MMCC

• A new tour to California is currently being organized for January 2008. For more information and updates about the tour please see: www.afghanmmcc.org/california

Sponsors and Partners are highly appreciated

• MMCC only exists due to major help and generous contributions from a large number of individuals, donors and partners

• We are constantly looking for new partners and sponsors to enable us to continue the activities

• Any contacts and/or contributions are highly appreciated

• For more information please visit: www.AfghanMMCC.org