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

Melinda Gates

In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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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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Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
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
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
I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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College Goal Goodness
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Born Determination Future Woman
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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
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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Development Help Kind Start Technology Woman
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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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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Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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Affect Change Education Student Teacher Yourself
Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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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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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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