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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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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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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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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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All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth that's there, we're always trying to bust through that. So when I see a disease outbreak, I say to myself, OK, that'll get people realizing how lucky we are to have vaccines.
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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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When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise it to demand a life that is greater than what they've been told they have a right to expect. And these demands change the future for everyone.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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You can't save kids just with vaccines.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development
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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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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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Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
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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.
Melinda Gates