Original sentence: EMPOWER is a non-profit community organization that operates in Patpong and serves women working there by offering classes in language, health, law and pre-college education, as well as individual counseling.It also lobbies the government on behalf of the women, in an attempt to extend regular labor protections to sex workers.Since the dancers and other female bar employees are invariably under-educated young women from rural areas, EMPOWER's work is appreciated by the women -- if not necessarily by all the bar owners
Edited sentence: EMPOWER is a non-profit community organization that operates in Patpong serves women working in Patpong by offering classes in language, health, law and pre-college education, as well as individual counseling.It also lobbies the government on behalf of the women, trying to extend regular labor protections to sex workers.Since the dancers and other female bar employees are invariably under-educated young women from rural areas, EMPOWER's work is appreciated by much of the women and bar owners