This is my story of being a volunteer clown and visiting the Belen community, in Iquitos city in the Peruvian Amazon with Patch Adams and his team of humanitarian clowns. The team includes health workers, social workers, educators in many fields and other professionals who come to be a part of this wonderful project, and they keep coming back year after year with acts of service, compassion, practical assistance and empowerment in a variety of ways, working beside and with the people of this community. The teams listen, they learn, they care and assist. Some are involved more than just once a...