Melinda Gates

Whenever you include a group that’s been excluded, you benefit everyone. And when you’re working globally to include

Poverty is not being able to protect your family. Poverty is not being able to save your children when mothers with more money could. And because the strongest instinct of a mother is to protect her children, poverty is the most disempowering force on earth.

—Saksham cut newborn mortality in half in eighteen months.

you wanted to bring down the number of newborn deaths, Uttar Pradesh was an important place to work.