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Melinda Gates

If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself
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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Better Creation Family Hope Live Ourselves Woman
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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.
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Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Financial Help People Strategy
Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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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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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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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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