Child Labour in Vietnam

For a recent current events project in social class, we had to chose a current event in a country to present to the class. My country is Vietnam and I wanted to do a connection between these two projects. When I started to look up the fact in Vietnam, I was very taken back by the fact that they have so many different kinds of child labour. I am of Vietnamese orient and I always thought that the Vietnamese were a peaceful and helpful country...but that all changed once I read these statistics. To read about other child labour statistics in Vietnam such as child trafficking, prostitution, soldiers and crime visit this website.
http://www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/vietnam.html

NATIONAL STATISTICS IN VIETNAM (REGARDING CHILD LABOUR) 
* For the year 2000, the ILO projects that there will be 466,000 economically active children, 266,000 girls and 200,000 boys between the ages of 10-14, representing 5.21% of this age group. (ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
* A reported 36,000 child labourers are illegally employed although observers estimate the figure is actually 10 times that. ("Statistics paint grim picture of children's sad plight in Vietnam", Vietnam Investment Review, 11/9/2000)
* 995,564 children are economically active. (ILO, Yearbook of Labour Statistics, 1998)
* The government estimated in 1997 that approximately 29,000 children below the age of 15 were victims of exploitative labour. That estimate may have been low, since most of these children are working in the informal sector. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)
* 12,675 children under 15 years are working. (CWA, Truong Thi Hao, How to Protect and to Help Working Children in Vietnam in the Economic Crisis of Asia, citing Protection and Care Committee, 1998)
* There are an estimated 28,850 child labourers. (CWA, Truong Thi Hao, How to Protect and to Help Working Children in Vietnam in the Economic Crisis of Asia, citing Report of Vietnam Children)
* In 1995 there were 791,000 economically active children, 448,000 girls and 343,000 boys between the ages of 10-14, representing 9.12% of this age group. (ILO, International Labour Office - Bureau of Statistics, Economically Active Population 1950-2010, STAT Working Paper, ILO 1997)
* 1,349,052 children between the ages of 13-15 were economically active. (CWA, Truong Thi Hao, How to Protect and to Help Working Children in Vietnam in the Economic Crisis of Asia, citing General Census 1989)
GENERAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS
* In urban areas, children work in family-owned, small businesses. In rural areas, children work primarily on family farms and in other agricultural activities. (US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 1999, 25 February 2000)