Clowning

A means of financial support that is commonly used by The Family, where members dress up as clowns and stand in front of grocery stores and other businesses, offering to create balloon animals in exchange for a donation. Clowning is lucrative business and some members rely on it as their main means of support. It is also commonly done during shows for orphanages and hospitals, turning it into a photo shoot for PR, which is in turn used to solicit donations and provision large containers of clothes and other items which in some cases are pilfered through before giving the discards to orphanages, etc.