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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.

Melinda Gates

If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Children Growth Potential Woman
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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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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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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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Women 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.
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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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Government 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.
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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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