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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

Melinda Gates

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Development Investment Woman Women Empowerment World Yourself
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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Abortion Country Issues Law People Politics
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself
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
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Care Live Mom Myself Save
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Growth Investment People Woman
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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Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Date Decision Goodness Partner
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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Fingers Improvement Information Money Resource World Yourself
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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Change Cultural Open People Point Social View Yourself
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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Development Difference Help Learning Story Travel Woman World Yourself
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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Big Born Children Family Herself Live Pieces Planning Save Space Vaccine Woman Work
That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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Ability Children Goodness Ourselves Universe

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