This is Tran Thanh Nam, a former bartender and employee at Cuong Phat Pottery Company in Binh Duong, Vietnam.

At the tender age of 15, Nam decided to drop out of school and the world of education behind. “I wasn’t very mature back then,” he says. When Nam left school, finding a decent age-appropriate job was difficult, leaving him with no option but to take high-risk jobs like bartending until late at night.

But since early 2018, Nam, now 17, has been working at Cuong Phat Pottery Company. The factory is taking part in a youth development programme which creates opportunities for out-of-school youth such as Nam. This has been a new chance for Nam, changing his life.

This is one of four stories profiled in, “Four countries. Four stories” – a film collaboration between Global Child Forum and CCR CSR. The video gives voice to children who talk about the impacts of businesses on their lives.