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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.

Melinda Gates

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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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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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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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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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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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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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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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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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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