Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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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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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All lives have an equal value.
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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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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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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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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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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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