Circus helps refugees find balance

MARDIN, Turkey - Laughter rings out and there is an atmosphere of excitement and joyful chaos. Children are perched on stilts, others spin plates or happily perform aerial dances.

This is not a big-top circus in a major city but a house in southeastern Turkey, where Syrian refugee children learn circus tricks in an innovative program to help them integrate into their foreign host country.

The Her Yerde Sanat association (Turkish for "Art Anywhere") works with 120 young people aged 3 to 20.