Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
MELINDA GATESIf you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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 ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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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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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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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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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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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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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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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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