Impatient Optimists
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Regina Kapinga

Title Program Officer, Agricultural Development
Organization Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Regina Kapinga is a program officer with the foundation’s Agricultural Development initiative.

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Growing a Better Future: Sweet Potatoes in Africa

October 19, 2010 / Regina Kapinga

One of the most fundamental questions we ask ourselves at the foundation is this: How do you help people who live on less than a dollar a day?

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Protecting Children and Mothers Against Vitamin A Deficiency

June 16, 2010 / Regina Kapinga

Dr. Regina Kapinga, a program officer with our Agricultural Development initiative, shares what she learned on a trip to Africa with members of the ONE board.

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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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