Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
MELINDA GATESWe 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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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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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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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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You can’t save kids just with 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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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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All lives have an equal value.
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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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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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