If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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