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Clown Nose: Burmese Refugees and World I

clown nose: Vermette, a full-time humanitarian clown, has never felt so enriched, according to Toronto Star. He has never felt so enraged, either. The 29-year-old from Trois-Rivi res, Que., sold his entertainment company two years ago, launched a fundraising campaign, filled a backpack and dove into a new life marked by overwhelming misery, suffering, violence and desperation. Now his shows are for street kids in Haiti and Burkina Faso, Syrian refugees in Greece and Jordan, Burmese refugees in Thailand and Russian orphans living in ramshackle conditions. If you brought me a recipe to save the world I'd drop my clown nose and do it. Yes, it's rough sometimes, he admitted in a recent interview. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.