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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.

Melinda Gates

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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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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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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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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Education Home Reading Woman
Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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Dreams Hope Important Person Point Remember
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
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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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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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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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
What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
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
Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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