Red Nose Foundation

Red Nose Foundation’s (RNF) 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 the pioneering force behind creative education advocacy and rehabilitation. RNF offers a safe place for children to explore, experiment and be educated. Red Nose Foundation(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 underprivileged children build dreams. Currently 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 Jurangmangu Timur, South Tangerang. In these two learning centers, the foundation provides more than 120 hours of arts and education classes to over 660 underprivileged children and youth-at-risk. By teaching these children circus skills and other arts while honing their mathematical and English-speaking abilities, we hope they will develop the confidence and courage to accomplish any dream they have for their future. Through the two learning centers, numerous events held across the city, as well as Red Nose Relief tours to various conflict-ridden and disaster-affected areas across Indonesia, the foundation has reached over 125,000 people across the archipelago.