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Clown Me In, known as Awrad Association, was created for the purpose of spreading laughter, providing relief to disadvantaged communities, addressing trauma, discrimination and environmental problems and abuses through clowning, laughter and social therapy workshops. We also aim to take the arts outside of the capital, giving disadvantaged and/or rural communities access to arts and culture. Clown Me In has worked around the world, in Mexican, Lebanese, Palestinian, Indian, Brazilian, Moroccan, Jordanian, Syrian, Greek and British communities.

We develop our activities in the cities of Guaira, Orlandia, Miguelopolis and Ipua, contributing directly to the integral development of children and teenagers, aiming at the improvement of social indicators, especially those related to low professional qualification, drug addiction, early pregnancy and school dropout. We believe that articulated, transdisciplinary and inclusive actions, embracing family and community, enable the strengthening of values such as ethics, responsibility, self confidence, self esteem, character, discipline, social awareness, collaboration, respect, pacifism and socialization.

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to mobilise its members to reintroduce sustainable Sport for All and physical activity practices into everyday lives, using the Designed to Move physical activity platform.

To promote the integral education of children, adolescents and young people through sports, culture and job training.

Our mission is to cultivate and incubate sustainable favela-based impact ecosystems that facilitate innovation and access to education, infrastructure, and investment for favela-centric startups, non-profits, and institutions. We seek to fortify favela communities and their citizens in the long-term, by providing them with access to knowledge, networks, infrastructure, and partners that will allow them to be the protagonists of the socioeconomic development of their community. We help remove the inherent limitations caused by widespread economic exclusion and institutional racism by giving the power of economic autonomy and sustainability back to favela.