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One life is worth no more or less than any other.

Melinda Gates

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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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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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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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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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Change Family Help Look Ourselves Problem Risk
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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself
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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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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