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Wanting something good to read? Try:

<http://www.circus2iraq.org/>

A small group of performers travelled to Iraq to try & do something good.

Devilstick Peat is among the group. He came to perform for us in Tunbridge Wells at our juggling festival in 2002, he is a total oddball, easily one of the most colourful characters I know & is a good friend to many us here at the TWJC.

Here he explains one of his reasons for going to Iraq.

"Another reason is a report I read from UNICEF. According to a survey they carried out just before the last invasion, over 40% of children in Iraq, nearly half of
it's surviving child population, can't see a point to life. No child should feel like that. Children should have hope, they're natures optimists. Even the kids I've met on train stations in India have hope. Nearly half of them here don't. Can you think of anyone else in more need of a good old fashion laugh? Neither can I, that's why I'm here. Honest, it's got nothing at all to do with cheap booze, big guns, or the chance to get a winter suntan. But it has got a lot to do with the fact that in ten years time, when
those "no hope" kids are men, I for one don't want them suicide bombing my wife and kids, and I doubt if you do either (unless of course, your ex wife is like my ex
girlfriend). You see it's my personal belief that if we don't do something for them today, while they are young. Then what will they do for us tomorrow, when we're old?"

At first I thought that this statement was a bit harsh. But Peat has seen & done a lot of work for conflict children all over the world & knows more about this sort of thing than most. The more I think about it the more I think he is right.