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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?’

Melinda Gates

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.
MELINDA GATES

Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
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
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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Act Bad Business Design Education Failure Help Tragedy
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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College Goal Goodness
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Children Medicine Miracle Vaccine
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
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
Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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Different Family Investment Man Time Woman
Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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Connection Deep Generosity Human Humanity Inspirational Life Meaning Purpose Result
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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Creation Deserve Fight Future Learning Live Play Time Woman World
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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Big Development Kill Problem Thinking World Yourself
One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Life Value Worth
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
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

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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