Better Teaching.
Stronger Schools.
More Opportunities for Children.
This video was created in 2016 by Emily Arnold
After reading about young children being rented out for sex by the week, I was compelled to act. Crushing poverty and the threat of human trafficking are everyday realities for vulnerable children.
But there is hope.
Education interrupts injustice, protects children and sets them up for a bright future.
~ Denise Arnold | Founder & Director of Cambodia Charitable Trust
The CAMBODIA CHARITABLE TRUST is creating a brighter future for over 11,000 children.
We work alongside Cambodian educators to strengthen teaching and improve learning for children.
From sponsoring a child or providing a bicycle, to strengthening teacher training across Cambodia – every contribution creates lasting change.
Why this matters:
In rural Cambodia, poverty places children at risk of leaving school early, unsafe migration, exploitation, and trafficking. Education changes that path.
For more than 18 years, Cambodia Charitable Trust has worked alongside schools, families, and communities to keep children learning and create long-term opportunity.
SUPPORTING CHILDREN
Helping vulnerable children remain in school through sponsorship, bicycles, uniforms, books, and practical support.
Education creates safety, opportunity, and hope while helping children build stronger futures for themselves and their communities.
STRENGTHENING SCHOOLS
Partnering with schools and communities to improve learning environments and educational opportunity in rural Cambodia.
Strong schools become centres of stability, learning, and long-term community development.
TRANSFORMING EDUCATION
Working alongside Cambodia’s Ministry of Education and Provincial Teacher Training Centres to improve teaching quality and classroom practice.
By strengthening teacher development, we help improve educational outcomes across Cambodia.
Education is the greatest hope for combating poverty, exploitation and trafficking in rural Cambodia, especially for girls.
These children are capable and full of potential.
Education changes futures. Together we can help make that possible.
100% OF YOUR DONATION GOES DIRECTLY TO OUR WORK IN CAMBODIA.
All of our volunteers donate their own travel and accommodation costs when working in Cambodia or in New Zealand and donate their time and expertise. Neither Denise Arnold, nor any of the Trustees or volunteers draw a salary from CCT or take money from the charity for their expenses. They all believe passionately in what CCT is doing.
Where CCT does have administration costs, these are covered by donations, by the volunteers or by Lyon O’Neale Arnold, lawyers in Tauranga, of which CCT founder Denise Arnold is a Director. What costs CCT cannot avoid (bank fees and Xero costs) are covered by specific donations by individuals.
Every dollar donated goes to a specified purpose if the donor has one or the projects in Cambodia where it is carefully spent to get the maximum impact. Where possible supplies are purchased in Cambodia to support the local economy and to make our New Zealand dollars go further.
Trafficking is a tragic problem in Cambodia. Only the most desperate of parents would sell their child. Often they are deceived by empty promises of a better life for their child as a domestic worker. The reality is far worse. I am moved and motivated to help provide an education for girls to protect them from these harsh realities. I see education as the only real way out of poverty.
Theresa Gattung | Patron of the Cambodia Charitable Trust