What is Red Nose Day?

2. What is Red Nose Day? Red Nose Day is a day like no other when people in Britain and other countries around the world get together to do something funny for money and change countless lives in the process. Much of the money raised in the UK goes to children’s charities in Africa. Red Nose Day is run by an organisation called Comic Relief who were founded in 1985 to raise money for the Ethiopian famine. The first Red Nose Day was on February 5th 1988 and is now an event that is held every two years.

3. On Red Nose Day, Wear a Red Nose!

4. Famous people do it!

5. Even normally sensible people do it!

6. Patana students and teachers certainly do it!

7. Then they do something funny for the money!

8. We’re raising money for children’s charities in Thailand

9. Red Nose Day Projects 2013 This year we will be supporting

10. Operation Smile Thailand • For many years now , we have been donating some of the money raised on Red Nose Day to Operation Smile, Thailand through the school’s Smile Club. This organisation provides operations for children with cleft palates and other facial deformities. This year we hope to provide operations for at least 5 children.

11. Children of the Forest • We are supporting this children’s refuge organisation, based in Sangkhlaburi, near the Burmese border, for the second time. This year we are supporting their rice planting project, which not only provides their rice intake for the year, but offerstheir children a practical understanding of the traditional and culturally important process of paddy rice growing.

12. So, on Red Nose DayFriday, March 15th • Wear something funny for the money!