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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

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Growth Investment People Woman
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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