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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.

Melinda Gates

Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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If 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.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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