Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
MELINDA GATESNow, 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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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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