If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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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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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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Men 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.
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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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