Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
MELINDA GATESKids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
MELINDA GATESMen make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
MELINDA GATESWomen are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
MELINDA GATESGovernment funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
MELINDA GATESIf 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.
MELINDA GATESAs a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
MELINDA GATESVaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
MELINDA GATESAll women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
MELINDA GATESNow we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
MELINDA GATESIt is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
MELINDA GATESOur economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
MELINDA GATESWhat great changes have not been ambitious?
MELINDA GATESWomen speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
MELINDA GATESYou 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 GATESSometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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