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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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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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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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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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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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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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If you don't invest in the woman, empower her, give her the things she needs to lift her family up, you're just not going to make the progress that you want to make. But if you put her at the centre, you can change a lot for that family, and it has ripple effects through the economy.
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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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Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development
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Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
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If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.
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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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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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