IDEAS Insights Vietnam's emergent social enterprise sector | Page 8

http :// www . koto . com . au / about-koto
Koto is a hospitality training centre for at-risk and disadvantaged youth : it has trained over 670 students at its two centres in Hanoi and Saigon . It operates both a Foundation arm , which focuses on raising funding , and an Enterprise arm for other hospitality training . The ‘ harmonious combination ’ of these two arms supports the welfare and training of the students , some of whom are offered employment with KOTO after graduating .
KOTO has been visited by both Bill Clinton and the Queen of Denmark .
www . saomaicenter . org / en
SMC is an organisation for the visually impaired , supporting the blind by developing assistive technology in education , employment and daily living .
It has established 26 computer labs for the blind in 23 different provinces around Vietnam , and trained more than 1500 visually impaired people from basic to advanced level .
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