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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.

Melinda Gates

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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Foundation Life Oneself Planet Value
Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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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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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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Better Creation Family Hope Live Ourselves Woman
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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Financial Help People Strategy
Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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