Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
MELINDA GATESThe premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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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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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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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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