Children are empowered through basic education- education prevents human trafficking, and drug addiction and offers an escape from endemic poverty.
Children like this little girl, living in a shack with her mother and several siblings, often start work at 11 years old in slum areas in Vietnam and Cambodia. Going to school not only keeps her from the karoke bars, (soft prostitution) but gives her a way to help her whole family overcome the scourge of endemic poverty and shame.
