In September 2008, I went with Save the Children to Cambodia. The thing that impressed me the most was how much they were changing so many people's lives with often very simple solutions.

One day we drove for miles along dirt roads to visit a school in a village that was so remote, the head man said we were the first Westerners to go there. Although this village was a long way from main roads, there are villages with no schools that are even more remote. The nearest school, like the one we visited, is too far to walk to every day.

So Save the Children give them $50 bicycles and that bicycle is the difference between a child spending their life unable to read or write and working hard just to survive or becoming anything they want from a teacher to a doctor to the president of their country.