What we do

Blue Dragon Children's Foundation works in Vietnam with street kids, children with disabilities, children from rural families living in extreme poverty, and victims of human trafficking and slavery. It rescues and cares for victims of human trafficking, provides urgently needed services for street children, rebuilds lives through education and training, and creates hope.

How you can help

Blue Dragon Children’s Trust (NZ) organises two fundraising events a year: a book fair and a film evening. Please email us at bluedragontrustnz@gmail.com if you would like to be involved or join our database to receive news about upcoming events and activities.

Volunteering

Please email us if you would like to volunteer at our annual Blue Dragon Book Fair. We'd love your help.

Organise your own fundraising event

We encourage others to organise events anywhere in New Zealand for Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation in Vietnam.

Who we are

Patron

Alison Kember

Trustees

They all live in Wellington. They are:
Dianne Thomas Bryan
Dinah Dobson
Iona McNaughton
Phuong Truong
Sue Gifford

Blue Dragon supporters

Sue Chamberlain, Kirsty Hazledine
Wellington College and its International Students’ Association have been fundraising for Blue Dragon over many years and in 2024 donated a fantastic $2000 to Blue Dragon.
Interact Club of Port Nicholson is made up of female students, who volunteer at our book fair. In 2025, they are also organising fundraising events supporting Blue Dragon.
Scots College: “As part of Scots College’s 2025 International Day, I led a student-run cultural food stall fundraiser in support of Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation. Thanks to the incredible effort of our school community, we successfully raised and donated $1086 to support Blue Dragon’s life-changing work in protecting children and ending human trafficking in Vietnam.” – Pathitta (Nina) Sudprasert, International Prefect of 2025

Brief history

So how did New Zealanders get involved with a children’s learning centre in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam? One of the first New Zealanders to see the difference that Blue Dragon is making to the lives of hundreds of children was Alison Kember, wife of James Kember, New Zealand Ambassador in Hanoi from 2006 to 2009.

Alison, a secondary school teacher, worked as a volunteer at Blue Dragon where she taught English to young Vietnamese women. Through Alison, several New Zealand schools started fundraising for Blue Dragon.

A newspaper feature article in The Dominion Post, featuring Blue Dragon and the New Zealand connection, led to the formation of the Blue Dragon NZ Trust in 2010. The first book fair and movie fundraiser were held in 2011.