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.
MELINDA GATESIt is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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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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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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.
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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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 set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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