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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.

Melinda Gates

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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Affect Change Education Student Teacher Yourself
If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Development Investment Woman Women Empowerment World Yourself
Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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Believe Stay True Trust Yourself
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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Digital Economics Opportunity Place Time Tools
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
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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Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking
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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Change Family Help Look Ourselves Problem Risk
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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Development Difference Government Life Save
What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Ambition Change Greatness Inspirational Motivational
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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Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Change Force Strong Support Togetherness Woman
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
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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Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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Education Home Reading Woman
Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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Connection Deep Generosity Human Humanity Inspirational Life Meaning Purpose Result
If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Children Growth Potential Woman

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