KOTO (Know One, Teach One), a not-for-profit restaurant and vocational training program, has hosted the third charity event in HCMC to raise funds for a new vocational school for poor adolescents in Dong Nai province
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KOTO (Know One, Teach One), a not-for-profit restaurant and vocational training program, has hosted the third charity event in HCMC to raise funds for a new vocational school for poor adolescents in Dong Nai province
With this year’s event having the theme “Koto one – Together as one we build the community,” KOTO has called for the community to help change the lives of young people in need.
Previously, KOTO held two charity events to raise funds to grant scholarships for its students and design the new vocational school. The school is expected to be up and running in 2018 with well-equipped facilities like library, computer room, playground and a dorm for students.
A highlight at the upcoming event is the screening of a short film entitled Huong which is inspired by a story of a young house maid born into a poor rural family to achieve a Master’s degree at Swinburne University, Australia. The film is a joint effort of director Tsering and TNA Entertainment.
The charity gala night is expected to welcome over 400 entrepreneurs and celebrities. Benefactors can buy tickets at VND3.5 million each at KOTO restaurant in District 1 or join a charity auction at the gala.
KOTO was opened in 1999 as a small Hanoi-based sandwich shop and has grown over the past 17 years into an internationally accredited (by Box Hill Institute, Australia) hospitality program and a series of restaurants in Hanoi and HCMC and has helped change the lives of over 1,000 students.
Its founder Jimmy Pham who was born in Vietnam and raised in Sydney, Australia was honored as one of 190 Global Young Leaders from 65 countries by The World Economic Forum in 2011.
(Source:SGT)
