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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.

Melinda Gates

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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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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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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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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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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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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All lives have an equal value.
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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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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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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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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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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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