If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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?’
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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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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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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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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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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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