Mr. Hao learned about fair trade from Ten Thousand Villages buyers and visitors over the years and decided that his business would be a fair trade business. Mr. Hao has developed a successful ceramics business that employs several hundred artisans at several workshops. Many pots are turned on wheels while most of the very large pots are made in molds. Pots are fired in traditional wood fired step kilns that have been used for centuries. The wood used to fuel the fires is scrap wood from old shipping crates and torn down houses. Mr. Hao has earned enough money from Viet Lam to be able to send his son Vu to university where he obtained a business degree in accounting. Sales of ceramics pots and garden ware made by artisans at Viet Lam has provided good paying, regular work for hundreds of artisans and has enabled them to provide a good education for their children. (December, 2009)