If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

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.

I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past.

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development

When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.

Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.