When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
MELINDA GATESWhen we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
MELINDA GATESIf 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.
MELINDA GATESBill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
MELINDA GATESIf 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.
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 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 GATESYou are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
MELINDA GATESThat’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.
MELINDA GATESWhat great changes have not been ambitious?
MELINDA GATESMake sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATESIf 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?’
MELINDA GATESPhilanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
MELINDA GATESConnect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
MELINDA GATESIf you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
MELINDA GATESKids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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