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.
MELINDA GATESYou are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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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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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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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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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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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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All lives have an equal value.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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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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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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