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 GATESTake 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 GATESWomen and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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 GATESBirth 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.
MELINDA GATESThe 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.
MELINDA GATESDeep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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 GATESConnect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
MELINDA GATESI 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.
MELINDA GATESAs a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
MELINDA GATESIt is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
MELINDA GATESWe 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?’
MELINDA GATESThe premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
MELINDA GATESAs 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.
MELINDA GATESYou can’t save kids just with vaccines.
MELINDA GATESNow, 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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