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

Melinda Gates

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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Organizational Founder
Patron Of The Arts
Philanthropist
Dallas
Texas
Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
Melinda Ann Gates
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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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Human-centered design. Meeting people where they are and really taking their needs and feedback into account. When you let people participate in the design process, you find that they often have ingenious ideas about what would really help them. And it’s not a onetime thing it’s an iterative process.
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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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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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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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I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
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In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate and have people realize that we actually agree as a country about contraceptives. Over 93 percent of American women say they use contraceptives, and they feel very good about it.
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