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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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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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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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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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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