One life is worth no more or less than any other.
MELINDA GATESBirth 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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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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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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