RED N
SE
FOUNDATION
ANNUAL REPORT
2015
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Yayasan 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 Mandiri
Account Name: Yayasan Hidung Merah
Account number: 122-00-0548439-2
SWIFT Code: BMRIIDJA
Bank Address: Jakarta Wisma Metropolitan I, Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 29
Jakarta 12920
Bank Central Asia (BCA)
Account Name : Yayasan Hidung Merah
Account Number : 291-1781-788
SWIFT Code : CENAIDJA
Bank Address :
Bank Central Asia (BCA) KCU Pondok
Indah, Wisma BCA Pondok Indah
Jl. Metro Pondok Indah no.10
Jakarta 12310
Wells Fargo Bank
Account Name : Red Nose Foundation
Account Number : 171-2320-322
SWIFT Code : WFBIUS6S
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Table of Contents
The Red Nose Story.............................................................................................4
Letter from the Executive Director....................................................................5
A Year’s Reflection and Ovation
Red Nose In Number 2015............................................... ...................................6
2015 Sponsors and Supporters............................................................................7
The Red Nose Team..............................................................................................8
Creative Education Advocacy
Red Nose Program.............................................................................................10
Developing Inner Strength through Social Circus.........................................12
Applied Science and Visual Arts.................................... .................................14
Learning Music, Soccer, Life, and Dreams.....................................................16
English and Vocational Training..................................... ................................17
Journey Around the Globe
Traveing the World through Circus................................. ................................18
Mingalabar Myanmar.........................................................................................19
Dedi Purwadi’s American Circus Trip............................. ................................20
Ton Channa Journeys to Jakarta.......................................................................21
The World of Social Circus................................................................................22
Red Nose Showtime!
2015 Fun-Raising Event...................................................... ................................23
Performance Troupe Performs Across Jakarta.................................................24
8th Annual Community Circus......................................... ................................36
Projects - Upgrading the Red Nose
North Jakarta Community Center for Children.............................................28
Governance and Transparancy
Financial Statement 2015...................................................................................29
Board of Directors.............................................................. ................................31
Cover picture:
Red Nose Performance Troupe performing in Mahabandoola Park
in Yangon, Myanmar, as part of the week-long International Juggling Festival 2015
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Transcending
Boundaries
Through Play
Red 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 children
to explore, experiment, and get educated.
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THE RED NOSE
STORY
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.
C
urrently the foundation operates two learning 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.
As the foundation continues to grow, the public awareness 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 often attracts the attention of local and international media.
In these two learning centers, the foundation provides more
than 75 hours of arts and education classes for 300 underprivileged children every week. With a curriculum of creatively collaborated arts and traditional education topics, the
children are offered a hands-on, tactile experience in learning, 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 the international scene, Red Nose Foundation has established 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 capacity 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 ultimately building happiness and hope for a better future.
In order to achieve its goal of children protection and to improve 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-being. The three pillars serve as the foundational structure for
RNF’s outreach are the Arts and Education Outreach Program, 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 organization’s inception In 2015, the Arts and Education
Outreach Program had 262 participants, 99 full scholarships and 250 partial scholarships were successfully secured and implemented, and the Hidung Merah Performance Troupe performed for more than 8,000 audience.
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In 2016 and beyond, the foundation aims to expand
ever more and increase its impact on the lives of underprivileged children in Jakarta. Within the first six
months of the year, the development of the North Jakarta Community Center for Children will be complete
and RNF will move into this new purpose-built facility.
The two-story building will host four classrooms, a library, a computer lab, a staff room,
and a 125m2 gymnasium for circus training.
In 2016, the foundation will embark on several international trips, including a trip to international circus festival in
Cambodia and intensive training courses across the globe.
With the support of its sponsors and supporters, RNF will continue to provide children with a
safe and nurturing environment to explore new possibilities, experiment, get educated, and have fun.
Letter from the Executive Director
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 return 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 independence: 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 sustainability, and I’m proud to report that growth is progressing at
a strong pace.
Red Nose has solidified its methodology of art-based education, 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 support, not allowing any one program to be completely dependent 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 organization, 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 Center 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 unfaltering support from our donors. Thank you for your support
and thank you for helping children build dreams!
Peace,
Dan Roberts
Founder and Executive Director
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A Year’s Reflection and Ovation
RED NOSE
In Numbers
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A Year’s Reflection and Ovation
2015 Sponsors and Supporters
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A Year’s Reflection and Ovation
T HE R
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Dan Roberts
Founder 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 student 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 organized 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 Roberts
Managing Director
As Managing Director, Renny works closely with the foundation’s Executive Director to determine 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.
Dedi Purwadi
Artistic 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 implement 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 managing workshop activities, supporting the circus program and training with the Hidung Merah
Performance Troupe.
Meisi Kacaribu
Education 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 Development Counselor, Teacher Assistant, Curriculum Coordinator, Curriculum Developer, Teacher,
and Deputy Principal. Her work has brought her to many parts of Indonesia, including the farflung provinces of Aceh and Papua.
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Mohamad Kohar
Operational Manager
Nurul Adhim
Field Instructor/Teacher
Wawan Kurniawan
Assistant Circus Instructor
Imam S. Mansursyah
Verli
Communications Manager
Administrative Assistant
Dini Arifah
M. Arifin Syafril
April Yanah
Wahyu B. Sumarto
Field Instructor/Teacher
Assistant Circus Instructor
Sport Instructor
Logistics
The strength of a team is each individual member
The strength of each member is a team
-Phil JacksonAnnual Report 2015 | Page 9
Creativity Education Advocacy
RED NOSE
Arts and Education Outreach
The Arts and Education Outreach Program is the foundation’s flagship program and is active in Cilincing, North
Jakarta, and Bintaro Lama, South Jakarta. Within this program, 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 programs.
The Arts and Education Outreach Program uses the combination 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.
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).
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PROGRAMS
Formal Education System Support
The Formal Education System Support program is RNF’s attempt
to begin creating systematic change. While the foundation strongly believe in its Arts and Education Outreach Program, the foundation also understands that to make systematic change it is necessary to work within the formal education system that is already
established. Currently, the program is organized into three categories: 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.
Hidung Merah Performance Troupe
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.
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 organizations 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.
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Creativity Education Advocacy
Developing Inner Strength
through 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 from
marginalized communities, living in social or personal risk.
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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 inhibitions 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 technique, 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 value 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, execute 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 foundation to help them succeed at anything they want to accomplish.
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Creativity Education Advocacy
Applied Science &
Visual Arts
W
hen 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 complete, they are happy to announce that they have been
proven right!
Throughout these two phases, running from November 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 kingdom, from molecules to the solar system, the Science and
Art students had had a wonderful journey of learning science 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 experiment 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 collaborating with peers, the skill that is rarely developed in the
traditional education settings in their schools. Some students joined the program with a very low skill of communicating ideas through discussion and presentation.
In the end of the program, however, they have developed
the ability to do presentations confidently, even to present their independent researches on certain topics.
Creating hand painting
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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-related 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 local 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 discover many more interesting things in Science.
- Meisi Kacaribu, Education Director -
Cilincing science class roadshow
Creating a simple topographical map
Making a water cycle diorama
Capillarity lesson
Tutoring session
Field trip to the BASF Kids’ Lab in South Jakarta
An experiment to learn density
Learning about the respiratory system
Field trip to the Ceramics Museum, North Jakarta
Creating artwork using colored
DIY playdough
Creating bookmarks from ice cream stick
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Creativity Education Advocacy
LEARNING MUSIC, SOCCER, LIFE, AND DREAMS
With 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.
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, scoring a winning goal, and lifting the championship trophy.
Red Nose Foundation has managed to enroll a music
class for years. Led by former musician and RNF’s Artistic 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 bright future in their imaginations are in-line to Red
Nose’s mission to help children building dreams. In November, the children at Red Nose began registering to join the
Soccer and Healthy Lifestyles program, funded by Nike Indonesia.
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.
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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.
Creativity Education Advocacy
ENGLISH AND
VOCATIONAL
TRAINING
As Indonesia grows from a third world country
into a developing nation, high school diplomas
are becoming less valuable and the necessity 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 accomplish, 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 communities face regarding job readiness, employability 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 opportunities 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 curriculum, as well as give the young adults opportunities to intern at their hotels and possible
employment opportunities for those who excel.
Also supported by emPower, Red Nose is developing 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, university prep and other related subjects. We believe 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 lessons 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!
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Journey Around the Globe
TRAVELING THE WORLD
THROUGH CIRCUS
by: Iman Mahditama
(Originally published in AirAsia’s Travel 3Sixty Magazine, May 2015 edition)
F
or 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 spaces on the street in front of the park and cheers and whoops
began to fill the air. The circus artists took turns in performing 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 Foundation, 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 potentials and explore their interests and talents in a safe and comfortable environment to empower themselves and to create a
better future for themselves and the local community.
Why Circus? Because, through circus, children has the opportunity to develop various skills. It also has a positive psychological impact. For example, a continual practice to create 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 practice 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 various science topics in a fun way. The foundation’s science teachers 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 underprivileged students at Red Nose Foundation, 269 are also enrolled
in formal schools. The foundation also has the Hidung Merah 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 international events is also part of the foundation’s educational mission. Through interaction with similarly aged friends from
different cultural backgrounds, children’s horizon will be expanded and they will be in touch with a vast world of opportunities available to have a better future.
The six teenagers participating in the International Juggling Festival in Yangon, are senior students of the Hidung
Merah Performance Troupe. They have been with the foundation 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
Red Nose Foundation was established in 2008 by Dan skills in front of foreigners who we have just met.”
Roberts, who hailed from the United States but spent six years
Recalling back to the shows he performed in in Yangon,
in his childhood in Jakarta. Dan was first introduced to the Wawan said that he had been nervous before the shows startworld of circus when he studied Acting at the Roosevelt Uni- ed. “I was performing in front of international circus perversitys’ Chicago College of Performing Arts in Chicago. In formers. They were all so much better than me so I got a bit
2008, he joined Clowns Without Borders-USA as a volunteer nervous. However, after my show, they actually clapped and
and held a 10-week solo circus expedition across Indonesia. praised me. In the end, I thought that I should have never felt
One of his destinations in the expedition was Cilincing in inferior. Why should I? The most important thing is to always
North Jakarta. It was in the middle of this expedition that Dan try to improve myself.”
decided to stay in Jakarta and establish Red Nose Foundation.
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Mingalabar Myanmar!
M
INGALABAR is a Burmese
greeting that means “may you
be fortunate and prosperous.”
Don’t cry because it’s over.
Smile because it happened.
-Dr. Seuss-
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Journey Around the Globe
Dedi Purwadi’s American Circus Trip
F
rom April to July 2015, Red Nose Foundation
artistic director Dedi Purwadi visited St. Louis, Missouri, to participate in a social circus
training with Circus Harmony. During this threemonth 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 wonderful trip! Also Many thanks to the Circus Harmony team for receiving Dedi, and of course, Dedi’s host family. Without their generous help, none
of this would have been possible.
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Journey Around the Globe
TON CHANNA
JOURNEYS TO JAKARTA
C
ambodian 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 teacher with Red Nose, lending his expertise and years of experience as a professional circus performer at Cambodia’s famous
social circus organization Phare Ponleu Selpak.
Channa’s trip to Indonesia would not have been possible without the full support from our great friends at Rotary
Club Cilandak. For this, we convey our most sincere gratitude 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 special 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 Cambodia 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 using Indonesian language, even though he used the wrong
words sometimes. Sometimes our staffs saw him using Google Translate on his cellphone a few times. When he got the
words wrong, he just laughed it off. People in the local village 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!
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Journey Around the Globe
the world of
Social circus
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 platform, 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.
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 connecting 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.
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 Yangon, 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 visit
http://http://www.socialcircus.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/asiansocialcircus/
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Red Nose Showtime!
2015 FUN-raising Events
Festival of Laughs
A
s a charity organization, Red Nose Foundation always
strives to seek out creative ways to raise funds. The foundation 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 auctions and raffles and much more.
Red Nose in Concer t
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Red Nose Showtime!
Performance Troupe
performs across jakarta
Jakarta Highland Gathering
May 2015
Community Benefit Concert
May 2015
Corporate Event - BASF Indonesia
July 2015
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Corporate Event - Royal Haskoning DHV
October 2015
IKEA Indonesia Store
December 2015
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Red Nose Showtime!
th
RNF celebrated 8 years of sharing
laughter and dreams with children 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 experience for everyone involved. They
showed such confidence and joy in
their awesome abilities on stage!
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community
circus
In Every Real Man,
a child is hidden
that wants to
PLAY!
-Friedrich NietzscheAnnual Report 2015 | Page 27
Projects - Upgrading the Red Nose
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North Jakarta
Community Center for Children
fter several months of fundraising, negotiation,
and endless paperwork, Red Nose Foundation
finally leased a 420-square-meter plot of land in Cilincing, North Jakarta, in November 2014! Upon this
land, the foundation plans to establish the North Jakarta 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 library, a computer lab, a staff room, and a 125 square
meter gymnasium for sport and circus training.
This project is made possible by the generous donations from:
PONDOK INDAH
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Governance and Transparancy
Board of Directors
Board 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 Management
Chairperson:
Dedi Purwadi
Secretary:
Meisi kacaribu
Treasurer:
Renny Antoni Roberts
Board of patrons
Chairperson:
Bernardino M. Vega Jr
Treasurer:
adimukyo mardjikoen
members:
David Kenneth Gaida
Oppie Andaresta
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Art has the role in education
of helping children
become like themselves
instead of more like
anyone else
-Sydney Gurewitz ClemensPage 30
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