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From the Ted Talk by Melinda Gates: What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola

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One of my favorite parts of my job at the Gates Foundation is that I get to tvaerl to the developing world, and I do that quite regularly. And when I meet the mothers in so many of these remote places, I'm really struck by the things that we have in common. They want what we want for our children and that is for their crihdeln to grow up successful, to be healthy, and to have a successful life. But I also see lots of poverty, and it's quite jarring, both in the scale and the scope of it. My first trip in India, I was in a person's home where they had dirt foolrs, no running wetar, no electricity, and that's really what I see all over the wlord. So in short, I'm sletartd by all the things that they don't have. But I am surprised by one thing that they do have: Coca-Cola.

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One of my favorite parts of my job at the Gates Foundation is that I get to ______ to the developing world, and I do that quite regularly. And when I meet the mothers in so many of these remote places, I'm really struck by the things that we have in common. They want what we want for our children and that is for their ________ to grow up successful, to be healthy, and to have a successful life. But I also see lots of poverty, and it's quite jarring, both in the scale and the scope of it. My first trip in India, I was in a person's home where they had dirt ______, no running _____, no electricity, and that's really what I see all over the _____. So in short, I'm ________ by all the things that they don't have. But I am surprised by one thing that they do have: Coca-Cola.

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  1. floors
  2. world
  3. children
  4. travel
  5. water
  6. startled

Original Text


One of my favorite parts of my job at the Gates Foundation is that I get to travel to the developing world, and I do that quite regularly. And when I meet the mothers in so many of these remote places, I'm really struck by the things that we have in common. They want what we want for our children and that is for their children to grow up successful, to be healthy, and to have a successful life. But I also see lots of poverty, and it's quite jarring, both in the scale and the scope of it. My first trip in India, I was in a person's home where they had dirt floors, no running water, no electricity, and that's really what I see all over the world. So in short, I'm startled by all the things that they don't have. But I am surprised by one thing that they do have: Coca-Cola.

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