Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.

I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in India, etc. When I would go and talk to villagers about something like vaccines, if I stayed long enough, the women would bring the conversation around and say: "What about this family planning tool? We can't keep having the number of children we're having."

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.

If we're going to make progress on this issue [of contraception], we have to be really clear about what our agenda is. We're not talking about abortion. We're not talking about population control. What I'm talking about is giving women the power to save their lives, to save their children's lives and to give their families the best possible future.

Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.

Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.

I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.