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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.

Melinda Gates

As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Children Love Parents Responsible Vaccinate Yourself
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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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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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Best Children Vaccine Woman Work Yourself
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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
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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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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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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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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