Cambodia Charitable Trust (CCTNZ)

This NGO was started by a New Zealand based lawyer, Denise Arnold in 2008. Her daughter travelled safely to Asia, Denise realised that being safe in South East Asia was not something that all young women and girls experience.

Denise started the Cambodia Charitable Trust.

What Denise and others have accomplished is truly remarkable. They sponsor 23 schools and have sponsored or continue to sponsor over 700 children, primarily girls. They have worked with the Teachers collages and the Ministry of Education, and such is their standing within Cambodia that their in country staff are consulted whenever the Ministry of Education wish to make a change.

This is truly remarkable.

I have travelled to Cambodia with CCT since 2016, I’ve seen school girls grow to be strong educated young women. They come from subsistence farming backgrounds and are now standing proud with university degrees they would never have achieved without the efforts of New Zealanders who have sponsored them through their education.

This NGO is supported by New Zealanders, who understand that education is important and education of girls is one of the UN’s goals for reducing world poverty.

For a small NZ based NGO to be able to influence the way education is undertaken in a developing country is a remarkable achievement.