The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
MELINDA GATESI learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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All lives have an equal value.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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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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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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