One life is worth no more or less than any other.
MELINDA GATESIf you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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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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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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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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If 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.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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