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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

Melinda Gates

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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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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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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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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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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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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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 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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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