Our Story
Now.Here. was founded in 2018 by Randolph Oudemans. We are committed to helping people experience happiness, flourish and contribute to a better world.
Prior to the founding of Now.Here., Randolph spent his high-school years in Jakarta and then returned there as a youth worker. After witnessing the hardships being faced by children growing up in Indonesia, he resolved to take action, to do something positive and to make a difference.
In early 2003, he took decisive steps to create a socio-humanitarian organization that would support this.
Randolph and an orphanage child in Sumatra, Indonesia.
As he visited various child-care institutions, he was struck by the severe sense of abandonment, fear, lack of positive self-esteem and self-compassion that the children were experiencing. In those early days, while considering how he might be able to contribute to overcoming these challenges, he took his young son on a trip and asked him to share his ideas and perspectives (sometimes, children perceive things with a purity and clarity that adults don’t seem to be able to).
In this moment, his son looked at him and said, “Dad, so many of these children don’t seem to have parents/caregivers who truly care for them, and cuddle them, like you and mom do with us.” From this observation, his focus on caregiver training and empowerment was born.
This led to the birth of Asah Asih Asuh (then ReAct), a non-profit organization that aims to significantly raise the quality of care children receive - by training & empowering their caregivers.
A Cisco Meraki team leader with a group of orphanage children during a “Care and Fun” Positive Social Impact event in Seminyak, Indonesia.
Throughout the next 15 years, Randolph watched children and their caregivers flourish with the help of the programs that he offered. So much so that he decided to bring the programs to new communities through Now.Here. Now.Here. allows him to combine his business experience with socio-humanitarian efforts to help people live fuller, more meaningful lives.
At the core of his philosophy is the belief that we all deserve a chance at happiness, contentment and joy. He offers this as the foundation of his work in this field.
He believes that when we care for ourselves, we care for the Earth. One of the key initiatives we have at Now.Here. is Treasure Earth. (Learn more: www.treasure-earth.global)
