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“If this were India, in this room [of 1500 people], only three of us would have a car. If this were Afghanistan, only one person in this room would know how to use the Internet. If this were Zambia, 300 of you would be farmers, 100 of you would have AIDS or HIV.”
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“[Around the world], women and children spend 40 billion hours a year fetching water. That’s as if the entire workforce of the State of California worked full time for a year doing nothing but fetching water.”
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“It is necessary to have a very clear vision of the world that we live in … the world where women spend two to three hours every day grinding grain for their families to eat.”
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“The number-one cause of death in children under five … water-borne diseases? Diarrhea? Malnutrition? No: it’s breathing the smoke from indoor cooking fires — acute respiratory infections. Over two million deaths every year.”
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“We need to rethink our development strategies, so that we’re not promoting educational campaigns to get people to stop being farmers, but rather to stop being poor farmers.”
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