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Melinda Gates

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.
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Development Difference Help Learning Story Travel Woman World Yourself
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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Decision Different Economics Herself Husband Money Phone Save Woman
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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Digital Economics Opportunity Place Time Tools
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Change Force Strong Support Togetherness Woman
All lives have an equal value.
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Equality Live One Liner Value
When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Foundation Life Oneself Planet Value
Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Planning Pregnant Tools Woman World
We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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Decision Foundation Investment Myself Start Time Travel
Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Help Inspirational People Time Yourself
When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Development Global Investment Powerful Woman Yourself
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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Best Children Vaccine Woman Work Yourself
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.
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Creation Deserve Fight Future Learning Live Play Time Woman World
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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Change Family Help Look Ourselves Problem Risk
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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