The program helps boost the girls' self-worth, teaches them to work together as a team and boosts their self-esteem. They see how unique they are and learn that's not a bad thing.

He'd come in the door after work and pick up toys. He'd help get the girls into their pajamas at night. We miss that.

Work provides more than just a paycheck -- it's a feeling of self-worth.

They didn't have very far to fall - I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board. My childhood visits to the family doctor were stressful events for that reason. He'd ask me gentle questions: How was I feeling? How would I describe the pain? Was it more sharp or more spread out? I'd just look at him with desperation. I needed to be told, that was the whole point of going to the doctor. To take a test, be put through a machine that could comb my insides with radiated precision and tell me what the truth was. Of course the girls didn't leave the ranch: there is a lot that can be borne. When I was nine, I'd broken my wrist falling from a swing. The shocking crack, the blackout pain. But even then, even with my wrist swelling with a cuff of trapped blood, I insisted I was fine, that it was nothing, and my parents believed me right up until the doctor showed them the X-ray, the bones snapped clean.

What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.

Two or three girls go to a club and they've worked out that one player is worth £50,000 ($128,000), another's worth £30,000 ($77,000). That's the reality.