Butterfly Trust

Butterfly Trust

Butterfly Trust supports long term improvements to health and education in Vanuatu, and also assists with disaster recovery when necessary.

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The Butterfly Trust works with less materially privileged communities, primarily in Vanuatu. It focuses on health and education. We listen to what Ni-Vanuatu want, and then assist when asked with resourcing, administration, and monitoring and evaluation. The Trust works from the national level to the grassroots village level, ensuring that all the projects we support fit within the strategic plans of the Vanuatu government.

While most of the projects we support concentrate on long-term improvements to health and education, we also assist with disaster relief and recovery when necessary.

All your donations to the Trust are used 100% for programme work. There are no deductions for administrative costs from your donations. Only donations made by the trustees are used for administrative costs.

PLEASE GIVE GENEROUSLY so we can support as many local communities as possible.

Please visit our website at www.butterflytrust.org, or our facebook page at www.facebook.com/thebutterflytrust/ for more information, or for a thumbnail sketch of our work, read below.

More on the Butterfly Trust:

Since 2010, Butterfly Trust has established community development projects in education and health to assist remote communities in Vanuatu.

The Butterfly Trust is a New Zealand registered charity that works with village and urban communities.

The Trust's main objective is sustainable community development through individual empowerment and the strengthening of local structures and systems.

Contact Trustees David and Lynn Colbert

email: david.lynn@butterflytrust.org

More about us

Butterfly Trust operates in Vanuatu in Education and Health. It partners with local communities, national and provincial authorities and other NGOs. The Trust believes in sharing resources, ideas and spirit for a more equal and harmonious world community.

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Butterfly Trust Update July 2025  17 July 2025

A lot has happened since our last newsletter with 3 severe cyclones and a major earthquake. We have been busy with disaster relief and recovery work, but also maintaining our core projects in health and sanitation, such as the construction of composting toilets at two schools on Espiritu Santo.

To read our latest newsletter, please follow this link: https://www.butterflytrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/BT-Update-July-2025.pdf

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Robin
Robin on 18 Oct 2025
$100
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Robin, thanks so much for your kind and generous donation, and also for your continued interest in the work of the Butterfly Trust. We really appreciate your support, especially the acrobatic work you did with the young people in Luganville!

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Joanne
Joanne on 22 Jul 2025
$200
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Thanks so much Joanne for your ongoing support. You have been wonderfully generous over the years.

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Jan
Jan on 06 Jan 2025
Thank you for your excellent work
$200
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Many thanks to you Jan for your continuing support of Vanuatu.

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Guest Donor on 23 Dec 2024
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Thank you very much for your special gift.

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Cathy
Cathy on 24 May 2024
Best wishes Lynn and David for your continued incredible work
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Thanks for your generosity and ongoing support Cathy. We are very grateful.

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