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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.

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.

I Am Catholic, I Was Raised Catholic, I Am A Practicing Catholic. But I Say We Need To Agree To Disagree. We Have A Shared Mission Around Poverty, And I Focus On That, Because We Do A Lot With The Catholic Church Around Poverty Alleviation. I'm Always Looking For: What Is The Common Thread? What Do We Care About? What Do We Believe In? We Believe In Women Around The World. We Believe In All Lives Have Equal Value.

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."

If You Invest In A Girl Or A Woman, You Are Investing In Everybody Else.