Zip-zapping from the streets to performing in the White House
Underprivileged children soar above their circumstances at this Cape Town circus school
13 September 2019 - 05:08
For a child living on the street, trapeze lessons and jumping on the trampoline don’t rate on the hierarchy of needs. However, circus skills that come wrapped with lessons for life are helping disadvantaged children to fly above their circumstances at the Zip Zap Social Circus.
Jacobus Claassen, who is now a coach at this Cape Town circus school, was a homeless child when he first got involved. He’d been living on the streets in Paarl before migrating to Cape Town, where a homeless shelter he found encouraged its residents to attend various outreach programmes...
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