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Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.

Melinda Gates

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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
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Dallas
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Melinda Ann French
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can't even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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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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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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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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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.
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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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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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Despite the debunking, you have a small group in the last five years that hasn't wanted to vaccinate their children, for instance, for measles. Then, all of sudden, we got an outbreak of measles and kids were starting to die from measles.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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