Red Nose Day is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most iconic appeals.
With origins dating back to 1989, Cure Kids’ Red Nose Day has grown to become one of the country's most iconic appeals. Remembered for the catchy theme song ‘You make the whole world smile’ and ‘Feel Inside (and stuff like that)’, Kiwis have united every Red Nose Day to make a difference to child health in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The iconic little red nose brings joy to Kiwis for its fun nature and its big impact.
As Cure Kids biggest annual fundraising appeal, Red Nose Day helps raise significant funds to support child health research. Over the years, this funding has led to some big breakthroughs in child health, including new insights into paediatric health conditions, better care for children who live with serious diseases, and the discovery of new ways to diagnose, treat, and cure kids.
Why we need your support
- 40K Children are admitted to hospital every year for preventable illnesses
- 300 Babies are stillborn every year
- 150 Children are diagnosed with a form of cancer every year
- 1/3 Of acute hospitalisations for children are due to respiratory conditions
- 1/4 Of young people report serious psychological distress
- 140 Children hospitalised each year for rheumatic fever and heart disease
Help Cure Kids make a difference.
These are just a few of the many reasons we need your support! Red Nose Day helps Cure Kids invest in research across a wide range of child health conditions, trying to solve the big unanswered questions that are preventing our tamariki from living bright and healthy lives.
With your help this Red Nose Day, Cure Kids can continue to achieve better health outcomes for children in Aotearoa New Zealand, and around the world.
Where the money goes
Red Nose Day helps Cure Kids fund child health research.
Cure Kids is currently supporting research to understand the cause, improve the care and discover the cause of at least 13 child health conditions. This is only made possible by the generosity of people like you.
For the full details, visit curekids.org.nz
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Preterm Health
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Childhood Cancers
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Maternal and Infant Conditions
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Rheumatic Heart Disease
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Childhood Development and Learning Difficulties
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Neurological and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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Obesity, Growth Disorders & Nutrition
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Mental Illnesses and Disorders
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Oral and Dental Disease
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Genetic Conditions and Rare Disorders
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Respiratory Conditions
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Infectious Disease
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Gastrointestinal Conditions
Cure Kids is currently supporting research to understand the cause, improve the care and discover the cause of at least 13 child health conditions. This is only made possible by the generosity of people like you.
For the full details, visit curekids.org.nz
Red nose stories
Amazing tales from fundraisers & little lives who’ve been transformed.
Explore them all
Lucca is a cancer survivor. At just 16 months old, she was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer.
Twins Grace and Amelia were born prematurely at 27 weeks and have extreme chronic lung disease.
Benjamin lives with spina bifida myelomeningocele and hydrocephalus.
Mela lives with an incredibly rare neurological condition called Moebius syndrome.
Feeling inspired?
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