Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates
Melinda Ann Gates, DBE is an American businesswoman and philanthropist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth15 August 1964
CountryUnited States of America
kids vaccines
You can't save kids just with vaccines.
inspiring children vaccines
Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
children polio-vaccine vaccines
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 have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.
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There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.
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So I made a conscious choice that when our daughter turned one, I would get back into those interests, those issues, and start learning them.
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There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.
life
I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.
home
We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.
We started this mostly from an intellectual place.
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We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions.
believe taking
But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.
children normal people respectful
People are respectful when we're out with the children on a normal evening, and it couldn't be a better place to live for those reasons.
girl school boys
If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.