Actually, the World Health Organization has saved millions of lives by this one recipe: One liter of clean water. Add one half teaspoon of salt and six teaspoons of sugar. Voila! Here is one simple way to save a child’s life that could otherwise die in a few hours.

On the same morning I met the nursing professor, I met two women designing programs to prevent sex trafficking in Cambodia. They were preparing pages of brief to submit to Cambodian authorities. After hours of research and hours before the internet, exhausted they took a final sip of coffee for a day of presentations.

As they rose from their seats, I said, “We do the same thing as you with our NGO – we also save lives”

“Education?” the older woman replied waving her hand in the air.

“Yes, education of girls and young women in local schools and universities.”

Education is like salt, water and sugar, a simple solution to a complex problem in the need for expanding awareness not only by preventing a girl from being tricked into prostitution, but opens the world to health care, education of children, good careers, equal rights and the desire to participate in a democratic process.

Education saves at-risk girls living a life of poverty. The Cambodian Arts and Scholarship Foundation, founded in 2001, lives by this simple recipe for Life.

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--Frederick Lipp, President/Founder, Cambodian Arts and Scholarship Foundation
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