The journey began when Denise and John Burton, two New Zealand farmers, got on a plane to Cambodia.

We were seeking a new purpose and wanted to help people less fortunate and with less opportunity than ourselves.

In Cambodia we found a country still reeling from the unthinkable devastation of the Pol Pot era 35 years before. Here the entire education system still struggles to rebuild from those few years of human, infrastructural and cultural annihilation. For example, of 20,000 teachers initially only 2,000 survived the senseless slaughter.

Everywhere we went there was a real need for outside help to bring basic education, especially to poor rural village children.

We formed Kiwis 4 Cambodian Kids (K4CK) in 2012 to support a sizeable non-governmental village school in the countryside of northwest Cambodia, near the world famous Angkor Wat temples outside Siem Reap.

As a New Zealand registered charity, we have firm guidelines to follow. We are responsible to our supporters/donors, the NZ Charities Commission and to getting the best long term return on the investment we are making in our Cambodian community.

Our focus is now on supporting education through the Community Learning Center concept. We work with a Cambodian-based organisation to do this, and together operate under the key principles of quality education,financial transparency and close collaboration with our community.

The Trustees

DENISE BURTON – Teacher of children with learning difficultiess (eg dyslexia), farmer.
JOHN BURTON – Biological Farmer, Soil Resource Conservator, Professional Rural Photographer.

And their three lovely daughters:

TAMMIE GRANT – Web/Graphic Designer, Professional Photographer.
AIMEE BURTON – Business Solutions consultant.
KIMBERLEY BURTON – MSc in Industrial Psychology.  Works in Human Resources with NZ Government.