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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.

Melinda Gates

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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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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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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