Clown doctors to prescribe laughter all year

Three people at an event. A woman in floral dress holds a document, a man in a sweater stands next to a clown with a red nose and hat. Geelong Community Foundation backdrop.

From the Geelong Advertiser March 1: Along with two ‘Clown Doctors’, 7-year-old Liam Williamson checks the heart of GCF Development Manager Leigh Wallace. GCF granted $9,700 in 2013 to Clown Doctors who visit sick kids in the children’s ward at Geelong Hospital every month. Laughter can be the best medicine.


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