Impatient Optimists
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Jemima Khan

Title Ambassador
Organization UNICEF

Jemima Khan is the Associate Editor of the New Statesman, the European editor-at-large for Vanity Fair and is executive producer for Intelligence2 versus series of debates with Google+.

Jemima has been an Ambassador for UNICEF since 2001 and runs her own charitable foundation.

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Making it Happen This Mother's Day in the UK

March 18, 2012 / Jemima Khan

Today mothers throughout the United Kingdom are celebrating Mother's Day. But in too many countries around the world, giving birth is still one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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