Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
MELINDA GATESThe 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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The 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.
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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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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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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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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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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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