Vietnam is a country of amazing color and unique food. But its also a place where life and many is a struggle. Ive come to a school and annoy to meet 43. 00 kids who are about to start a journey that we hope the out of poverty. This place cuts or does something that i feel really strongly about its not just about food about using food as a tool to improve somebodies life. So this is a trainset act as a 1st. For a brand new class jimmy fan is the astri in vietnamese founda and the heart of culture which stands for no one. Hes been helping disadvantaged kids for over 20 years by teaching them to cook where will the kids come from so they arrive from all over vietnam and the come from a whole lot of different difficult backgrounds from street kids church trafficked to tribe minority rule girls kids for everything gangs and institutions that cyrus or background 16 to 22 and this is their 1st very for the rest of their life. How my love why i am good look. John im not i locked away the will hunting call called all 100 number until a lot of the whole. Bunch of the culture and women who are in my home i am a woman i dont buy lamma numbers on that i know that our. Every student here applied for a place at the Cooking School to escape a troubled past man. And im now on more. Heat when im going to have more influence in the whole bottle. Yeah boy. And go eat all my life maybe i want. Some a homeless some of experience tonsil abuse and 2 thirds of them out wilsons war man so. On like that here for. A little. Bit. The out. Now with the. 18 year old hopes that this course will bring stability to the life but its also a shot at making a dream come true. Thank you very much for showing me its the over. Tookie. And when. These i am wow. Sagal oh me. I get maulvi upon things adding. All that me. And hope all. The m. 1. 00 payout haul noice i really am. And say homie. Can i ask what happened to your parents. When. That all sounds i. Saw in. May i might have. Gone maybe only now. After this double tragedy there were a few options left design. Shes from the same province as many of the 39 people who were found dead in her for dreaded laurie and u. K. Last year they live on in search of work and was close to following in their footsteps. And being we are. Now one did you ever consider yourself trying to go overseas to have more opportunity we knew. Well im going. Fi. I mean one day. 7000000 vietnamese live in poverty. Many of them children. And most of them are. Despite rapid growth around 40 percent of the population would in agriculture. But the government wants to move the economy away from farming and invest more in tourism. And. Culture sees this as a great opportunity for its students and today the new recruits are getting a glimpse of what their futures could be about to start off on the total that moment likely its their 1st experience with a harsh title its going to make me. Look at whos a stronger. Plan here is to inspire and motivate the students going to chance to try western food and see a car to graduate shift in action to quit without love simple quality. Cultural ease. And that they need to go to that boy and if they are not and give them only one thing and this is all that is on top of me dont. Give up little its the way they say not to ban something all you guys all of good. You have access kit is now i could shift it had always Intercontinental Hotel and shes about to teach the students there Good International do tell me is a cut and long last 38 of them didnt leave the monkeys at all let me. Just ask to look to god to strike that i need a. Job. The new. Name means. That. He may only. Inflame numbers he. Didnt like. Using silverman things. Like mining for nothing nothing only a few days ago was living below the poverty line in her village and often with no prospect of a job today shes had it 1st taste of prosperity in me taking me to claim to. Believe. Me vietnam was a different place when cotto started 20 years ago back then the country was still reeling from decades of war and strict communist rule. Founded jimmy pham grew up in australia and it come to work in vietnam as a 2 a guy. He saw too many street kids living rough and found his calling our saloon really literally living there the old chinese proverb over give a man a fish today lets see stray cats are words help them by giving them money i wasnt helping our role so i went on a new chapter in my life which was showing them how to fish. Our workforce i was hoping my kids were sol terrible milkshakes and terrible everything but at the end of the we had a family i dont have a hospitality experience i dont have any Developer Experience i didnt have a University Degree at that time i just want someone thats as simple as warren for help what was the turning point. Took cotto from small to big car if i tell you this you were in for we believe that we opened 2 months ago and then to also informed that morning that this most important man in the wars store visits his name was bill clinton we thought it was it whereas with a dream come true to have that kind of visit why would the most important man in the wall coms or this release more Sandwich Shop run by street kids gets miracle can happen and great things can happen when you empower people. That 1st can we Sandwich Shop is now long gone. In its place a fully functioning restaurant with the students learn on the job. Done very little in. So thats how he still has practical training here today at the restaurant so is anything that youre really enjoying cooking to get mellow out he only wants a lot of my life come on the help i will get it right its the best 5 that is the best part is anything that youre nervous about anything that youre finding really difficult this time of the open market on the return i have looked at more like you know i learned how to cook is the best way to learn english really really. Good like you. Can use halfway through his cooking course which is internationally recognized but he has a lot of skills to master before graduation and supple young. Fun here with all in 1900. 90. 9. What drives him is the do. Desire to turn his life around and help those he loves who are boy only to open up. But not might be. One when youre. More of it the adults in the. Room told me. All so but were moving. On. Im going. To land a high paying job he not only has to be the companys share. He needs to improve his english i think good afternoon everyone i was. Hearing. That. You know. A meeting is something. All you need a fast. Fact. Its made may be true but dont say. Please do your. I. And i you want to speak english better do you think its important. And come well meet a lot of we learned from me growing up well be more new tonight. I believe so a. New be compared to when youre learning the language the most important thing is to keep using it its not so much learning it you have been use that you dont need to learn the whole language you can just learn a little bit that you need to know so. This week. Learn the english about how to poach an egg. Just learn how to poach make in english yes i think you can do it this is going to be really good good luck. While cotto students come from incredibly tough backgrounds in some respects theyre the lucky ones. Not everyone in vietnam can become ships. To see what life is like for less fortunate kids im meeting a man working with who was young and homeless. By others a welcome to inside view. But so that is a drop in center where we treat good. Can come here any time you hang out here taking a shower all having me here so its a free place to come and his people table and we want to challenge any kid here is a pretty good. They look like they know what they do. So yeah if were going. For tony case thats where i live. So he had to get involved with blue dragon i came to hanoi when i will fifteens. So i was st kitts my family to you paul and i have to woman a street so i can make money to send bike home for my families and i met greg and almost rich is it a common thing for kids in the countryside to think that you know they have no opportunities in this small town and they going to come to the city and make a fortune yeah its quite common because in a countryside august you really poll and whats the reality for a lot of those kids what happened is we have we couldnt find any joy so we end up sleeping under the bridge we sleep sleeping on the streets. We did now we have a saying to street get we have a name for the. Its cold she would have to do it so that means dont you know. With attitudes like that street kids have few places to go for help so come enjoy it at least blue dragon is the only organization of its kind in the city looks good all right you know how you chaps like course you can. Get in. On a little bit of money. Ill talk to these young guys look like ordinary kids i dont get the sense that theyre home with sore trouble. That feeling is about to change without any of it all came along the only way i got him say theyve asked him no gamble now yeah. Just read it. Right this is your stuff let me be more like no one will i sleep under me yeah and ok ok. Lets talk a. Little later. On live in a single one of our. What do you worry about living here. At a rally maybe and i dont know. Yaml want to have a brain. But i want my whole life out of. The house like. This how. A weapon. Would be live with it. At least look it up because its a little bit of an inside look. We dont see it. Really glory because they look like. An old soul like healthy to assume a little they going to get really sick you know. They dont. Know my name i am funny me and. My. Money on the line is young. And you know i am the one in our bottom. Line. Thank you guys for the stimulating. Each year hundreds apply for a coveted spot at kowtows Cooking School applicants have to be willing to turn their lives around through study and hard work so not everyone gets a place but what they get in return is more than just training for a future job. I gave my family i look back and 20 something years theres a lot of things that a lot of mistakes i made but theres always something i can always look back and proud and a lot of pride that i remember all markets names i remember what they are hopes where they are what theyre doing maybe as a gift because if you tell me who sponsor us about 70 years ago i probably wont remember them im sorry sponsors but if you ask me where my kids i was 20 years ago ill be able to tell you whos in the classroom where i come from or. At the core of jimmys school is kindness creating. A support network much like a 2nd family. For song who lost her parents when she was young thats important. Not. To. Demean what he. She. Although its been a rough start so im slowly settling in. And in the carter spirit shes making friends and being shown the ropes. Of the day and only tale of a lifetime for me. Telling me. That me i think you are the tornado of the right and the heart of the india its. Like walking down 100. 2100 m. Way back. Yeah my god. Jimmys devoted his career to making a difference in kids lives its a job he loves but it also takes a toll i aspire to saul much story from from. The last 25 years of my life but ive also feel so more sorrow because you carrot is a burden and you hear the story of. The walk the path. You have so you feel about. People commit more crime there. The season student kang his challenge is to pass his end of year exams which will bring him one step closer to his dream job you know. I want on i want our. Phone on. In his pond i need to cook for dishes in one hour an english breakfast the results are homemade and the somewhat difficult International Dishes all. Gone. Yeah i. Love my and you know times up and kangs who can talk about it has noticed something missing from a key to. How. Im going to. Have been put up again like you know. That. Youve really got to 0. In on. That made them now the last. Thing last night. I. Think you did. I feel. Under pressure hes made some mistakes but hes just scraped through. Really good. Challenge is mastering english without it he wont get top paying job how did you go with. English was there. With. With pool on me and. From the minute. That mazy. You could do it right you could do the thing that really can yeah is really good really good and the foods i. Got so i sense that. Thank you i think your reservations. Is great. These kids have taken a huge leap from incredible disadvantage to the hope of prosperity. Throwing themselves into a Competitive Industry hit all bracing new skills discipline and new foods who he has cooked some strangely infertile. Have agreed to pass on some of my knowledge and experience in the spirit of the school. No one teach one failure if it is very easy to understand it comes from a lot of different parts of the world and its focused a lot on the ingredients that you choose a lot of fresh ingredients. And you put so many things in them and youve got no room to move. All. The things i do i am lovely oh yeah all the time. Is very confusing very scary but if you only do things that are not scary whats the point if you only do easy things whats the point every time you ask. Is you Getting Better and that they need to cut back im really proud of everything you guys do today new completely new food new ing gradients everything looked amazing i look forward to seeing what you guys can do in the future because you guys are looking so hot at the moment its going to be amazing a big round of applause for all those thank you for having me here. 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