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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.

Melinda Gates

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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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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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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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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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself

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