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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

Melinda Gates

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
If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Children Growth Potential Woman
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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Business Computer Education Myself Production Science Work
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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Education Home Reading Woman
After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Date Decision Goodness Partner
We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
All lives have an equal value.
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Equality Live One Liner Value
Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
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
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
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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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

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