If 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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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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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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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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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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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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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