KOTO Foundation, extending from Australia to Vietnam cares for the disadvantaged and underprivileged youth in Vietnam. The Foundation is supported by an international body of individual and corporate sponsors, donors, partners and Goodwill Ambassadors committed to the “KOTO – Know One, Teach One” principle and its efforts to improve the lives of Vietnamese youth.

The KOTO adventure started more than 10 years ago, when the founder, Jimmy Pham, opened a small sandwich shop in Hanoi as a means to help youth living off the streets by providing them with jobs.

Every six months KOTO recruits up to 30 young people from the streets, between the ages of 16-22, following recommendations coming from a wide network of sources, including individuals, local orphanages or other organisations dealing with poverty, trafficking, physical abuse, alcoholism and other addictions.

The training is hard at times, but the trainees’ journey is an amazing one: they can experience their transformation from abandoned, neglected, insecure young individuals with low self-esteem to empowered, knowledgeable and optimistic young men and women.

http://www.koto.com.au/