Impatient Optimists
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Amanda Lanzarone

Title Program Coordinator, Special Intiatives
Organization Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Amanda Lanzarone is a program coordinator on the Special Initiatives team in the foundation’s Global Development program. Her work spans Emergency Response and Urban Development.

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Building Back Better

December 31, 2011 / Valerie Nkamgang Bemo, Amanda Lanzarone

While the crisis in the Horn of Africa has not ended, rebuilding efforts undertaken in collaboration with local communities are renewing optimism and planting the seeds for a better future.

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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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