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.
MELINDA GATESHousework 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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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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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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All lives have an equal value.
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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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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 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 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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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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