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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.

Melinda Gates

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Care Live Mom Myself Save
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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Education Home Reading Woman
If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
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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Compassionate Direction Fortunate Help Ideas Kindness Life Person Right Start Success Time Yourself
What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Ambition Change Greatness Inspirational Motivational
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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Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World
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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Decision Foundation Investment Myself Start Time Travel
I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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Boredom Children Education Stay Thinking Time Understand
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
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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Big Born Children Family Herself Live Pieces Planning Save Space Vaccine Woman Work
Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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Country Myself Quality Woman World
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Foundation Life Oneself Planet Value
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
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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Fingers Improvement Information Money Resource World Yourself
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Children Medicine Miracle Vaccine

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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