30 percent of Vietnamese children between the age of 6-17 join the labor force. Most children stay close to home to help their family business. However, a report showed that there are over 26 thousand children that are in hard labor conditions in a hazardous environment. Some children are employed as restaurant assistants, domestic servants or children working on the streets as shoe shiners, beggars, or lottery and newspaper sellers. Many manufacturing factories in Ho Chi Minh City employed child labourers, 50 percent of whom are below 15 years old. The working environment of the employed usually includes low wages, poor facilities, long hours of work and even physical and mental abuse.