As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
MELINDA GATESThe premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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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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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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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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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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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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