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If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
Melinda Gates
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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
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Patron Of The Arts
Philanthropist
Dallas
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Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
Melinda Ann Gates
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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.
Melinda Gates
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
Melinda Gates
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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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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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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It's really one of my all-time favorite things to do. To go out and really see the kids and visit the moms who are in these programs because I think I really get to see what happens on the ground and connect with them about what changes are that happen in their lives because of some of the giving that we're able to do.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one button. They've given their cell-phone number to five trusted friends, and right away their GPS location goes out: Here I am.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other
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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.
Melinda Gates
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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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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If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go to read if you didn't have access to books. Philanthropy can be a place that'll take a risk or point to areas to make sure they are the right government investments to reduce inequalities.
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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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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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You can't save kids just with vaccines.
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