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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.

Melinda Gates

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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
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Dallas
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Melinda Ann French
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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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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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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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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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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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