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RED N SEFOUNDATIONANNUAL REPORT2015

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Table of ContentsYayasan Hidung Merah is a registered non-profit organization based in Jakarta,

Indonesia.Red Nose Foundation is also a registered non-profit in America and is a 501(c)3

Tax Exempt Organization.

Donations to Red Nose Foundation can be made by bank transfer to the following

accounts:

Bank MandiriAccount Name: Yayasan Hidung Merah

Account number: 122-00-0548439-2SWIFT Code: BMRIIDJA

Bank Address: Jakarta Wisma Metropoli-tan I, Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 29

Jakarta 12920

Bank Central Asia (BCA)Account Name : Yayasan Hidung Merah

Account Number : 291-1781-788SWIFT Code : CENAIDJA

Bank Address :Bank Central Asia (BCA) KCU Pondok

Indah, Wisma BCA Pondok IndahJl. Metro Pondok Indah no.10

Jakarta 12310

Wells Fargo BankAccount Name : Red Nose Foundation

Account Number : 171-2320-322SWIFT Code : WFBIUS6S

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The Red Nose Story............................................................

Letter from the Executive Director...................................

A Year’s Reflection and Ovation

Red Nose In Number 2015...............................................

2015 Sponsors and Supporters..........................................

The Red Nose Team............................................................

Creative Education Advocacy

Red Nose Program.............................................................

Developing Inner Strength through Social Circus........

Applied Science and Visual Arts....................................

Learning Music, Soccer, Life, and Dreams.....................

English and Vocational Training.....................................

Journey Around the Globe

Traveing the World through Circus.................................

Mingalabar Myanmar.........................................................

Dedi Purwadi’s American Circus Trip.............................

Ton Channa Journeys to Jakarta.......................................

The World of Social Circus................................................

Red Nose Showtime!

2015 Fun-Raising Event......................................................

Performance Troupe Performs Across Jakarta.................

8th Annual Community Circus.........................................

Projects - Upgrading the Red Nose

North Jakarta Community Center for Children............

Governance and Transparancy

Financial Statement 2015..................................................

Board of Directors..............................................................

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Cover picture: Red Nose Performance Troupe performing in Mahabandoola Park

in Yangon, Myanmar, as part of the week-long International Juggling Festival 2015


Transcending

Through PlayRed Nose Foundation’s mission is

to support the educational and personal development of children living in underprivileged circumstances

and to promote the empowerment of youth through arts while assisting them to become positive contributors

to society.

Red Nose Foundation strives to be a pioneering creative force behind education advocacy and rehabilitation.

Red Nose Foundation offers a safe place for childrento explore, experiment, and get educated.

Boundaries


Currently the foundation operates two learn-ing centers across Greater Jakarta: one in a poor fishermen community in Cilincing on

the shores of North Jakarta and the other in a trash scavengers’ slum in Bintaro Lama, South Jakarta.

In these two learning centers, the foundation provides more than 75 hours of arts and education classes for 300 under-privileged children every week. With a curriculum of cre-atively collaborated arts and traditional education topics, the children are offered a hands-on, tactile experience in learn-ing, which results in more comprehensive understanding and a sustained knowledge base. Even beyond the children’s newfound command of their studies, they come away from Red Nose classes with increased self-confidence, heightened creativity and the courage to dream.

In order to achieve its goal of children protection and to im-prove the quality of life for underprivileged children and the communities in white they reside, RNF has developed three fundamental pillars to assist the many different aspects of a child’s educational journey, and in turn, a child’s well-be-ing. The three pillars serve as the foundational structure for RNF’s outreach are the Arts and Education Outreach Pro-gram, the Formal Education System Support Program, and the Hidung Merah Performance Troupe.

Through these pillar programs, RNF has reached more than 100,000 children and their families since the or-ganization’s inception In 2015, the Arts and Education Outreach Program had 262 participants, 99 full scholar-ships and 250 partial scholarships were successfully se-cured and implemented, and the Hidung Merah Perfor-mance Troupe performed for more than 8,000 audience.

As the foundation continues to grow, the public aware-ness of its program continues to increase, as does the foundation’s reputation. Currently, the foundation is well known among a number of communities in Jakarta and of-ten attracts the attention of local and international media.

In the international scene, Red Nose Foundation has es-tablished partnerships with circus organizations across the globe. As a founding member of the Asian Social Circus Association (ASCA), with members spanning from Kabul to Canberra, the foundation is concerned with the capaci-ty development of social circus organizations across Asia. The foundation believes that social circus can be effectively used to help empower underprivileged children across Asia through developing self-reliance, confidence, trust, and ul-timately building happiness and hope for a better future.

In 2016 and beyond, the foundation aims to expand ever more and increase its impact on the lives of un-derprivileged children in Jakarta. Within the first six months of the year, the development of the North Ja-karta Community Center for Children will be complete and RNF will move into this new purpose-built facility.

The two-story building will host four class-rooms, a library, a computer lab, a staff room, and a 125m2 gymnasium for circus training.

In 2016, the foundation will embark on several internation-al trips, including a trip to international circus festival in Cambodia and intensive training courses across the globe.

With the support of its sponsors and support-ers, RNF will continue to provide children with a safe and nurturing environment to explore new pos-sibilities, experiment, get educated, and have fun.

THE RED NOSESTORY

Red Nose Foundation (RNF), or Yayasan Hidung Merah,is a non-profit arts and education outreach organization based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Established in 2008, the foundation works to help local undepririvileged kids build their dreams.


Dear Friends,

Eight years ago I set off to Indonesia to give something back to Indonesia in the form of a three-month performance tour to bring levity and laughter to children living in the slums. Not long after the tour ended, I started devising a plan to re-turn to Indonesia and build an organization that could make a real difference in the lives of underprivileged children. I was joined by my two partners, Dedi and Renny, who helped develop, manage and improve Red Nose Foundation, so that it could touch the lives of more than 100,000 children across Indonesia’s vast archipelago.

As I watch Red Nose Foundation grow, increasing its outreach capacity, developing new programs and bringing on new team members, I try to continuously evaluate the sustainability of the organization and its efforts. I believe there are three main components to an organization’s sustainability and indepen-dence: the relevance of its programs, the strength of its team and the reliability of its financial structure. For the last several years, we’ve worked to improve these three areas of sustain-ability, and I’m proud to report that growth is progressing at a strong pace.

Red Nose has solidified its methodology of art-based ed-ucation, currently offering four programs to hundreds of children in North and South Jakarta. Personal development skills are taught through the circus arts in our Social Circus program, science is taught through visual arts and hands on experiments in our Applied Science and Visual Arts program, healthy lifestyle skills and nutrition are taught through our Sports Education program, and English language is taught through theater arts and public speaking in our English and Theater program.

We’ve developed a funding structure for these programs that will allow flexibility with the ebb and flow of corporate sup-port, not allowing any one program to be completely depen-dent on one donor. Our fundraising events and individual donor campaigns continue to gain traction and attract more support throughout each year.

Lastly, we’ve spent a lot of time building our team at Red Nose. In the end of 2015, we invited our education manager, Meisi Kacaribu, to join the leadership team with Dedi, Renny and myself. Fortunately for us, Meisi accepted the invitation and has already shown what a great asset she will be for the orga-nization, its team members and the children we work with. We strive to continuously encourage and enhance our team, assuring the team further develops teaching facilitating, and administrative skills. Our current team is the strongest and most energetic collection of dedicated members we’ve had since the beginning, and it is solidified when you see the work they are accomplishing with and for the kids.

In 2016, the doors to our North Jakarta Community Cen-ter for Children will finally open. The process has been trying, but with the support of a great field team, we have finally prevailed. Construction began during the first quarter of 2016 and plans to conclude by the beginning of the third quarter of this year. Once complete, the children will have a wonderful, safe, and purpose-built facility to play and learn in, seven days a week.

All of the trials and tribulations faced throughout the year would not have been apprehensible, without the unfalter-ing support from our donors. Thank you for your support and thank you for helping children build dreams!

Peace,

Dan RobertsFounder and Executive Director

Letter from the Executive Director



RED NOSEIn Numbers 2015


2015 Sponsors and SupportersA Year’s Reflection and Ovation


Dan RobertsFounder and Executive Director

Dan Roberts is the founder and Executive Director of Red Nose Foundation. Dan moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, with his family from the United States as a teenager and was a stu-dent at the Jakarta International School. Upon returning to the U.S., Dan studied Acting at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts. After he discovered circus and physical theatre, Dan was inspired, and spent a number of years working for different youth circus groups. In 2008, Dan became a volunteer for Clowns Without Borders-USA and or-ganized a 10-week solo circus expedition through Indonesia. During this expedition Dan made the decision to stay and establish the Red Nose Foundation. Since then, Dan has been the driving force behind the foundation.

Renny Antoni RobertsManaging Director

As Managing Director, Renny works closely with the foundation’s Executive Director to deter-mine the direction and the future of the foundation. Renny has been involved in social work since the age of 12, and over the years she has volunteered to help street kids in East Jakarta and teach basic literacy, math and English to children. Renny holds a Bachelor of Arts with a major in communication studies and public relations from The London School of Public Relations. In August 2009, Renny became a volunteer at the Red Nose Foundation, documenting the foundation’s activities. She finally joined the Red Nose Foundation as a Project Coordinator in March 2010 and became Red Nose’s Managing Director in May 2011.

Meisi KacaribuEducation Director

As Education Director, Meisi is responsible to set up the foundation’s educational curriculum as well as oversee all teaching and learning activities. Prior to joining the foundation, Meisi had nine years of experience in various roles in the education sector, including as Child Develop-ment Counselor, Teacher Assistant, Curriculum Coordinator, Curriculum Developer, Teacher, and Deputy Principal. Her work has brought her to many parts of Indonesia, including the far-flung provinces of Aceh and Papua.

Dedi PurwadiArtistic Director

Dedi was the first person to join the Red Nose Foundation as a full time staff member. Dedi has been a fundamental part of the foundation ever since, and has helped develop and imple-ment all of its programs, even performing with the Red Nose Relief tours across Indonesia. Today Dedi is RNF’s Artistic Director and is hands-on with classes and is involved in manag-ing workshop activities, supporting the circus program and training with the Hidung Merah Performance Troupe.

THE RED NOSE TEAM



Wawan KurniawanAssistant Circus Instructor

Nurul AdhimField Instructor/Teacher

Mohamad KoharOperational Manager

April YanahAssistant Circus Instructor

Dini ArifahField Instructor/Teacher

M. Arifin SyafrilSport Instructor

Wahyu B. SumartoLogistics

Imam S. MansursyahCommunications Manager

VerliAdministrative Assistant

The strength of a team is each individual memberThe strength of each member is a team

-Phil Jackson-


RED NOSE

The Arts and Education Outreach Program is the foun-dation’s flagship program and is active in Cilincing, North Jakarta, and Bintaro Lama, South Jakarta. Within this pro-gram, you can also find a smaller program called the 100 Clown Club, in which donors can support the participation of a group of underprivileged children in Red Nose pro-grams.

The Arts and Education Outreach Program uses the com-bination of arts education with traditional education to support the children’s formal and informal journey through the Indonesian education system. Curriculum is created in parallel to compliment the children’s traditional learning at school, while adding value and substance through creative learning strategies and the application of art to traditional learning topics.

Arts and Education Outreach

Since its establishment in 2008 more than 650 children from approximately 30 orphanages, homeless shelters, underprivileged schools and slum villages across Jakarta have benefited from the Arts and Education Outreach Program.

In this program, Red Nose students take up to 15 hours of education and arts classes per week, comprising of subjects ranging from circus, guitar and photography skills to Math, English Language and Science. Through arts and education classes, the program offers an opportunity for children to develop self-confidence, giving them the tools they need to achieve their dreams and helping them build a brighter future.

Red Nose Foundation’s 100 Clown Club enables donors to support the participation of local underprivileged children within Red Nose classes and other programs. With only US$10 per month, donors can help us provide a safe place for these children to get educated and have fun. With 100 members, we can cover the expenses of three groups of students (60 children in total) to receive education support courses (Applied Science, English Language, and tutoring) as well as personal development support through arts and sports classes (Circus and visual arts, music and soccer).

Creativity Education Advocacy


PROGRAMS

The Formal Education System Support program is RNF’s attempt to begin creating systematic change. While the foundation strong-ly believe in its Arts and Education Outreach Program, the foun-dation also understands that to make systematic change it is nec-essary to work within the formal education system that is already established. Currently, the program is organized into three catego-ries: Scholarships, Teacher Trainings, and School Renovations.

In 2015, RNF distributed Full Scholarships to 99 local students who have participated in the foundation’s Arts and Education Outreach Program for more than two years. The foundation offers three types of full scholarships: Elementary School scholarship is Rp 2 million per year, Middle School scholarship is Rp 3.5 million per year, and High School scholarship is Rp 6.5 million per year. Also in 2015, RNF awarded 250 partial scholarships to schoolchildren in slum areas who have demonstrated excellent academic efforts. Partial scholarships cover a portion of the fees, giving the students and their respective families partial relief from the financial burden that so often forces them to leave school before graduation.

In 2015, 100% of the full scholarships were supported by generous individual donations. The Partial scholarship program was fully funded Permata Bank.

The Hidung Merah Performance Troupe is where advanced RNF circus arts students share skills and experiences with each other and like-minded people from schools and arts-based organizations in Jakarta. This troupe of 13- to 20-year-olds meets once a week at the Jakarta Intercultural School to develop their performance skills and to prepare shows to perform across the city.

Several members of the performance troupe have traveled overseas to participate in international circus trainings, workshops, and festivals all over the world. In February 2015, the troupe traveled to Myanmar to take part in the International Juggling Festival in Yangon. Next year, the troupe is planning for another trip across Southeast Asia.

Formal Education System Support

Hidung Merah Performance Troupe

Included within the performance troupe is the Red Nose Birthday Party initiative. This program was created to show the older children (16 and up), that the skills they have earned through hours of hard work and practice, are valuable and can be used to earn income. The funds from the Birthday Party initiative are split amongst the performers.

Under the banner of Red Nose Relief (RNF’s own trauma-healing and psychosocial program), the troupe often joins forces with international organi-zations to travel to areas of Indonesia that have been devastated by a natural disaster or to post-conflict zones to bring levity and joy to children in these areas.



Developing Inner Strengththrough Social Circus

Social Circus refers to a growing movement around the world towards the use of circus arts as a medium for social justice or social good.

Using alternative pedagogical tools to work with youth frommarginalized communities, living in social or personal risk.


In practice, social circus helps build personal skills that children living in slum communities need to succeed against the many different challenges that await them. From simple benefits like increased self esteem and stronger understanding of teamwork, to more complicated ideas of learning skills, perseverance and the importance of respect and equality; social circus passes on these important lessons to children and young adults through tangible, hands on, experience based learning.

When a child is first engaged to learn basic circus skills, they’re excited to try, but terrified to fail. They often believe that if they try once and don’t succeed, they’ll never be able to accomplish the task. The job of the social circus instructor is to encourage and safely guide the child along the path of learning each new skill. Carefully crafted curriculum is used to ensure that the children are given the opportunity to succeed at early steps, before difficult elements are introduced. Each success empowers the child to confront the next step with more vigor and less fear, propelling the child into a state of ferocious curiosity, letting go of their inhibi-tions and learning that while each progressive step requires more concentration and an increased effort to learn, anything is possible with clear instructions, a little patience and a lot of courage.

With social circus, children are taught that their successes are shared celebrations and their failures are shared lessons. When children are learning acrobatics, if the pyramid falls, the blame doesn’t lay with the child on top who climbed with the wrong tech-nique, or with the child on the bottom who wasn’t strong enough to hold them up. In fact, they both own the failure. They are taught to communicate about what didn’t work, and why. It is the responsibility of each partner to be better where their partner lacks, catch their partner when they are falling and stand strong together in the face of adversity. The experience of depending and being depended on by your partner shines a new light on responsibility and community.

Performance is a very important part of social circus, whether a short demonstration in front of a small class or a full length show with hundreds of audience members. The children spend days, weeks or sometimes months working on certain tricks or acts. They learn that the performance they have prepared is a gift in which they have the honor of presenting to their audiences. The level of effort they’ve put into the presentation is equated to the val-ue of the gift, and they are proud to give such valuable gifts to their communities. When they stand on stage in front of a crowd, exe-cute the skill they’ve been practicing, and throw their hands up in the air to shout, “tada!” while the audience claps and cheers; their understanding of self worth and hard work is changed forever. The revelation that the children experience on stage; that they are worth something more than their outfit, more than the size of their house or the quantity of their possessions, is indeed an invaluable prize in and of itself.

The lessons taught in the social circus classroom are learned through hands on, actual experiences. This way of learning gives a deep and long lasting impression. It is for all of these reasons that Red Nose teaches social circus as the introductory program for all students who wish to join our organization. Every child, from our kindergarten kids up through our young adults in the vocational program take at least one social circus class each week, because we believe that the lessons learned in this classroom build the founda-tion to help them succeed at anything they want to accomplish.


Creating hand painting Cilincing science class roadshow

Applied Science &Visual Arts

When our Education team first started the Science and Art Program in late 2014, they knew for sure

that it would be fun and exciting. One year later, as the first two implementation phases of the program are com-plete, they are happy to announce that they have been proven right!

Throughout these two phases, running from Novem-ber 2014 to December 2015, the program had benefited more than 3,000 participants through many interesting activities. From the world of plants to the animal king-dom, from molecules to the solar system, the Science and Art students had had a wonderful journey of learning sci-ence through many engaging experiences.

The students no longer see science as a difficult and scary subject at school. For them, science has become easier, because they now realize that they can see science in their daily lives and in everyday activities. They now know that there is always something to explore and ex-periment about. This is truly a very encouraging thought!

We have seen how the students have improved their scientific knowledge along with their critical thinking skill. The students also developed their skill in collabo-rating with peers, the skill that is rarely developed in the traditional education settings in their schools. Some stu-dents joined the program with a very low skill of com-municating ideas through discussion and presentation. In the end of the program, however, they have developed the ability to do presentations confidently, even to pres-ent their independent researches on certain topics.

The art method approach that we use in this program has been a very important aspect of the learning process. In this program, the art method is not only an attractive addition to the learning process, but also becomes the new learning method for Science. By doing science-re-lated artworks, the students can understand science more easily. Their knowledge is no longer kept in memory only, but also can be poured into various creative and beautiful artworks.

We also had a little chance to start our local campaign of science through art. The students who participated in the program have become little ambassadors who shared about this fun method to their family and teachers. In one of our field trips, we had a chance to invite some lo-cal teachers to join us. It was a good experience to share what we have done in our program and encourage them to try and explore the ideas more as they teach Science at school. It is our hope that this program can be a pioneer of a new fun and interesting method of learning science.We are excited to continue this wonderful journey, to dis-cover many more interesting things in Science.

- Meisi Kacaribu, Education Director -



Creating a simple topographical map Making a water cycle diorama

Capillarity lesson Tutoring session Learning about the respiratory system

Field trip to the Ceramics Museum, North JakartaField trip to the BASF Kids’ Lab in South Jakarta

An experiment to learn density Creating bookmarks from ice cream stickCreating artwork using coloredDIY playdough


LEARNING MUSIC, SOCCER, LIFE, AND DREAMSWith their popularities, soccer and music are believed to

be the things that can unite this diverse world. Both may lead a big amount of crowd to stuck their eyes on, cheer out, clap along, and feel the pride in celebration.

Red Nose Foundation has managed to enroll a music class for years. Led by former musician and RNF’s Artis-tic Director Dedi, teenagers - mostly young girls - learn to play musical instruments, especially guitars, as well as the feel and philosophy of music itself. “I think the kids need to learn about music because with music we can change the world. Music is a part of life,” Dedi said.

The class is currently held once a week at Bintaro. At first, children seemed to be clueless in music, but they enjoy it so much and yes, every session they get better and better.

Move to soccer, the most popular sport on earth. Many kids dream of being a soccer star in the future, imagine of wearing the national team or their favorite club’s jersey, scor-ing a winning goal, and lifting the championship trophy.

The bright future in their imaginations are in-line to Red Nose’s mission to help children building dreams. In Novem-ber, the children at Red Nose began registering to join the Soccer and Healthy Lifestyles program, funded by Nike In-donesia.

By the end of the year, 100 boys and girls registered for the class. They couldn’t have been any more excited than when the class finally kicked off, in early January 2016. This program aims not only to teach sport, but also teamwork, pursuing goals, self-confidence and healthy lifestyles.



ENGLISH ANDVOCATIONALTRAINING


As Indonesia grows from a third world country into a developing nation, high school diplomas are becoming less valuable and the necessi-ty of continued education through college or university becomes more prevalent. Red Nose understands that for many of the children in our communities, the idea of twelve years of primary school is already a difficult feat to ac-complish, much less an additional three or four years of higher education.

Red Nose has developed and been awarded funding for a new program addressing many of the challenges that young adults in our com-munities face regarding job readiness, employ-ability and vocational skills. This program, funded by emPower, will offer young adults, between the ages of 16-24, a set of skills that set them apart from others their ages seeking employment. Red Nose believes that working in the hotel industry is a viable option for many of these young adults and that the careers op-portunities are vastly greater than working at a factory or small outdoor restaurant. Red Nose is currently developing relationships with a number of four and five star hotels, which will give input on and assistance regarding our cur-riculum, as well as give the young adults oppor-tunities to intern at their hotels and possible employment opportunities for those who excel.

Also supported by emPower, Red Nose is devel-oping two levels of courses for young children (ages 10-18; who are still attending school) to learn English language through theater arts, as well as job readiness skills like cv writing, uni-versity prep and other related subjects. We be-lieve the combination of English language and theater arts will encourage the children to be comfortable speaking in front of crowds, and give them real experiences of exploring the les-sons learned in their language courses.

These programs will be developed in the first two quarters of the year and are scheduled to begin implementation in May 2016. Wish us luck!



For many Indonesian kids, circus training may seem to be a foreign concept. But this is not the case for more than 280 students of Red Nose Foundation who reside

in two dense poverty-stricken neighborhoods in Jakarta. For them, circus is part of their daily lives. Circus teaches them to develop many positive attitudes, including self-confidence, teamwork, and courage to perform in front of a huge crowd. Some of its students have even traveled the world to perform in Myanmar, Poland, and the United States!

That Saturday night, on February 14, 2015, something awesome is brewing at the Mahabandula Park in downtown Yangon, Myanmar. It was five in the evening and, as usual, the park was filled with local people seeking a calm and relaxing respite from all the bustles of the town center. In one of the park’s pathways that lead to the main street, a group of circus artists were preparing themselves to entertain the audience.

The show that evening would be the final public event of the International Juggling Festival that had been going on for a week in Yangon. Hundreds of people began to fill up spac-es on the street in front of the park and cheers and whoops began to fill the air. The circus artists took turns in perform-ing on stage, displaying their skills and ingenuity and inciting wide-eyed awes and laughter from the audience.

Among the line-up of professional circus performers in the evening show, one group stood out. All of its members are still teenagers, between 14 and 19 years old. Moreover, all of them hailed from the poor fisherman village of Cilincing in North Jakarta.

They are Wawan Kurniawan, April Yanah, Ahmad Rais, Rini Astuti, Said Parlindungan, and Rika Ulan Dari. Despite growing up in a poor neighborhood, they dare to dream the impossible dream, shoot for the moon, and strive together to reach the skies and make their nation proud.

They participated in the International Juggling Festival in Yangon, Myanmar, as representatives from Red Nose Founda-tion, a not-for-profit organization based in Jakarta focusing in arts and education outreach for underprivileged children. The foundation’s mission is simple: to provide a safe place for kids and teenagers growing up in poverty-stricken neighborhoods to play, explore, experiment, and get educated. The ultimate goal is that these kids and teenagers can develop their poten-tials and explore their interests and talents in a safe and com-fortable environment to empower themselves and to create a better future for themselves and the local community.

Red Nose Foundation was established in 2008 by Dan Roberts, who hailed from the United States but spent six years in his childhood in Jakarta. Dan was first introduced to the world of circus when he studied Acting at the Roosevelt Uni-versitys’ Chicago College of Performing Arts in Chicago. In 2008, he joined Clowns Without Borders-USA as a volunteer and held a 10-week solo circus expedition across Indonesia. One of his destinations in the expedition was Cilincing in North Jakarta. It was in the middle of this expedition that Dan decided to stay in Jakarta and establish Red Nose Foundation.

Why Circus? Because, through circus, children has the op-portunity to develop various skills. It also has a positive psy-chological impact. For example, a continual practice to cre-ate a human pyramid with friends will enable you to develop courage, teamwork, and mutual trust. Juggling can train your concentration, agility, and hand coordination. Routine prac-tice of various circus skills will also effectively become fitness training that will keep your body healthy.

Apart from circus class, Red Nose Foundation also opens a Science and Arts class, in which students can learn about vari-ous science topics in a fun way. The foundation’s science teach-ers prioritize science experiments that inspire their students’ imagination, in the hope of turning tedious and intimidating science lessons into fun and engaging activities. Red Nose Foundation also has English, music, and photography classes. It has a Full Scholarship program that supports its students’ journey through formal education. Out of the 280 underpriv-ileged students at Red Nose Foundation, 269 are also enrolled in formal schools. The foundation also has the Hidung Mer-ah Performance Troupe for advanced circus students. Troupe members practice routinely every Sunday morning and have performed in numerous local and international events.

This presence of various non-circus programs shows that Red Nose Foundation does not require its students to become professional circus performers when they grow up. Circus is just a mean to develop various positive values and character traits, but each student has full freedom to decide their own future.

The participation of Red Nose students in various interna-tional events is also part of the foundation’s educational mis-sion. Through interaction with similarly aged friends from different cultural backgrounds, children’s horizon will be ex-panded and they will be in touch with a vast world of oppor-tunities available to have a better future.

The six teenagers participating in the International Jug-gling Festival in Yangon, are senior students of the Hidung Merah Performance Troupe. They have been with the founda-tion for more than five years. Two of them, Wawan and April, have now been hired as teachers in Red Nose’s circus class. The hope is for them both to become inspiration for their juniors in circus class.

April sees the Yangon experience as something totally new for her. “I’ve never been in international festivals like this. Here in Yangon, my friends and I have the opportunity to show our skills in front of foreigners who we have just met.”

Recalling back to the shows he performed in in Yangon, Wawan said that he had been nervous before the shows start-ed. “I was performing in front of international circus per-formers. They were all so much better than me so I got a bit nervous. However, after my show, they actually clapped and praised me. In the end, I thought that I should have never felt inferior. Why should I? The most important thing is to always try to improve myself.”

TRAVELING THE WORLD

by: Iman Mahditama(Originally published in AirAsia’s Travel 3Sixty Magazine, May 2015 edition)

THROUGH CIRCUS



Don’t cry because it’s over.Smile because it happened.

Mingalabar Myanmar!MINGALABAR is a Burmese

greeting that means “may you be fortunate and prosperous.”

-Dr. Seuss-


Dedi Purwadi’s American Circus Trip

From April to July 2015, Red Nose Foundation artistic director Dedi Purwadi visited St. Lou-is, Missouri, to participate in a social circus

training with Circus Harmony. During this three-month period, Dedi also helps Circus Harmony in providing circus classes at several local schools and preparing circus shows.

“I studied a lot with friends from the US, German and Israel. They were all very nice people,” Dedi says of his time in St. Louis. “I learnt many new acrobatic tricks. But, most importantly, I learnt a new way of running a youth program. There are many good lessons on how things are done at Circus Harmony that I want to bring to Red Nose Foundation.”

Generous supports make thing happens. A big shout out to all of our friends and supporters who have helped us send Dedi to St. Louis in this won-derful trip! Also Many thanks to the Circus Har-mony team for receiving Dedi, and of course, De-di’s host family. Without their generous help, none of this would have been possible.



TON CHANNAJOURNEYS TO JAKARTA

Cambodian circus artist Ton Channa volunteered at Red Nose Foundation for three months from April 16, 2015 to July 16, 2015. Those three months seemed

to fly quickly and everyone had a wonderful experience throughout the period. Channa volunteered as a circus teach-er with Red Nose, lending his expertise and years of experi-ence as a professional circus performer at Cambodia’s famous social circus organization Phare Ponleu Selpak.

Channa’s trip to Indonesia would not have been possi-ble without the full support from our great friends at Rotary Club Cilandak. For this, we convey our most sincere grati-tude to them!

As part of our circus teaching team, Channa taught around 300 underprivileged Red Nose students in two slum areas across Jakarta. He also helped teach our performance troupe every Sunday morning and our junior teachers in spe-cial training sessions held twice every week.

On the weekends, Channa spent his time sightseeing around Jakarta. He fell in love with Indonesian local cultures and delicacies and picked up the Indonesian language a bit.

“This has been a wonderful experience for me and it will be a memory I remember for a long time,”Channa said about his time in Jakarta, a few days before he went back to Cam-bodia on July 16.

“I have gained many new friends and I learnt a lot about Indonesia from everyone here. I love Indonesia. It has many beautiful cultures. It is really nice and hopefully someday I will return here.”

“To all my friends in Indonesia, I say ‘terima kasih!’,” he continued, using the Indonesian phrase for “thank you”.

All Red Nose staff and students thanked Channa for all the good things he has done while volunteering with us. Our staff members and students learnt a lot from him and it was a

great experience for them!

“When he first came here, he quickly adapted to the local environment. He tried to learn the culture and the language. He was also very helpful towards others. The students loved him very much,” says Meisi, our education director.

The other staffs share their sentiment, saying, “Channa was very sociable. He braved himself to communicate us-ing Indonesian language, even though he used the wrong words sometimes. Sometimes our staffs saw him using Goo-gle Translate on his cellphone a few times. When he got the words wrong, he just laughed it off. People in the local vil-lage say that it was very easy communicating with him, even though sometimes they have to use hand signs.

Goodbye, Channa! Come again to Jakarta soon!



the world of

Social circus

In line with Red Nose Foundation’s commitment to social circus as a tool of empowerment for underprivileged children, RNF has played a major role in establishing the Asian Social Circus Association (ASCA) to connect social circus groups and practitioners across the Asia-Pacific region and around the world.

Since its establishment in February 2013, ASCA has been connect-ing dozens of social circus organizations across Asia. From Kabul to Canberra, dozens of organizations, corporations and individuals have signed up to be a part of ASCA’s network.

With the full support of Cirque du Soleil, ASCA aims to connect and empower youth art-based organizations (social, community, and for-profit) in Asia.

Cirque du Soleil, the world’s most prestigious artistic entertainment company, has recognized the Red Nose Foundation for its work with underprivileged children living in the slums of Jakarta by making the foundation a member of the Cirque du Monde international social circus network.

Through Cirque du Monde, Cirque du Soleil supports social circus organizations around the world that are working with marginalized youth by giving access to funds, a Web-based plat-form, teaching tools and specialized training.

Cirque du Soleil’s director of social action and responsibility Gil Favreau visited the Red Nose Foundation in Jakarta in October 2012.

“When I visited Jakarta and met with Dan, I realized very quickly that Red Nose is an organization dedicated to social circus. I know that it is larger than that, it is linked with schools and supports young people by paying for their tuition, but the heart of the program is social circus,” explains Favreau.

The association’s two core objectives are: 1. Child rights and child protection advocacy throughout Asia

2. Introduction of social circus as an empowerment medium for underprivileged communities across Asia

On February 16-18, 2015, five members of ASCA’s Board of Directors came together for a strategic planning meeting in Yan-gon, Myanmar (Burma). Discussion during the three-day meeting was focused on strengthening ASCA’s role in developing social circus approaches to empower underprivileged youth across Asia. The result of this meeting is an action plan that will directly benefit 1.5 million underprivileged children and a further 3 million of their families over the next five years.

These action plans, which will be rolled out in phases with the collaborative efforts of over 25 social circus organizations across Asia, comprise of the following projects:

• 5 international youth arts festivals• 15 national youth arts festivals • 100 provincial youth arts festivals

• 250 capacity building workshops for local youth• Vocational educational trainings for 1,000 circus artists• International cultural exchange programs for 250 young adults.

Join ASCA’s ranks and become part of the only social circus network that spans from Kabul to Canberra!

For more information about ASCA, please visithttp://http://www.socialcircus.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/asiansocialcircus/



2015 FUN-raising Events

Red Nose in Concer t

Festival of Laughs

As a charity organization, Red Nose Foundation always strives to seek out creative ways to raise funds. The foun-

dation currently has two signature fundraising events: Red Nose in Concert and Festival of Laughs and Charity Auction. Red Nose also participates in several other fundraising events throughout the year. Since its establishment in 2008, Red Nose Foundation has successfully raised a total of more than Rp 1 billion, all of which goes toward supporting the personal and educational development of 300 underprivileged children in the two Red Nose field sites (Cilincing and Bintaro Lama) in Jakarta.A special thanks goes to NOW! Jakarta for their continuous support with our fundraising events. NOW! Jakarta helps promote our events, negotiates with their vendors for in-kind donations, and helps us gather amazing prizes for our auc-tions and raffles and much more.

Red Nose Showtime!


Community Benefit ConcertMay 2015

performs across jakarta

Corporate Event - BASF Indonesia July 2015

Jakarta Highland GatheringMay 2015

Performance TroupeRed Nose Showtime!


Corporate Event - Royal Haskoning DHVOctober 2015

IKEA Indonesia StoreDecember 2015


8thAnnualcommunitycircus

RNF celebrated 8 years of sharing laughter and dreams with chil-dren in Jakarta’s underprivileged areas by hosting the 8th Annual Community Circus, November 7-8 2015. 220 Red Nose children performed for 1,400 children and adults from their community, both in Cilincing and Bintaro Lama. The event was a wonderful expe-rience for everyone involved. They showed such confidence and joy in their awesome abilities on stage!

Red Nose Showtime!


In Every Real Man,

a child is hidden

that wants to

PLAY!-Friedrich Nietzsche-


After several months of fundraising, negotiation, and endless paperwork, Red Nose Foundation

finally leased a 420-square-meter plot of land in Cil-incing, North Jakarta, in November 2014! Upon this land, the foundation plans to establish the North Ja-karta Community Center for Children -- a safe place for children to learn, explore, and get educated!

Development will start soon and, in early 2016, we’ll move all North Jakarta programs to the building and increase our outreach capacity to classes for more than 400 children each week by year’s end.

The two-story building will host four classrooms, a li-brary, a computer lab, a staff room, and a 125 square meter gymnasium for sport and circus training.

Projects - Upgrading the Red Nose

North Jakarta Community Center for Children

This project is made possible by the generous donations from:

PONDOK INDAH


Board of DirectorsBoard of supervisors

Chairperson: DAVID H. WHITE

Secretary: Rozally Eleanora Tanos

Events Committee: Ita Thrasher

Jarred Kalweit

Fundraising Committee: Mark Metcalfe

don duttlinger

Member: Brian Arnold

Board of patrons

Chairperson: Bernardino M. Vega Jr

Treasurer: adimukyo mardjikoen

members: David Kenneth Gaida

Oppie Andaresta

Board of Management

Chairperson: Dedi Purwadi

Secretary: Meisi kacaribu

Treasurer: Renny Antoni Roberts

Governance and Transparancy



Art has the role in educationof helping children

become like themselvesinstead of more like

anyone else

-Sydney Gurewitz Clemens-

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