It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
MELINDA GATESWe [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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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.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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