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In addition to her 30 year career holding various leadership positions at the company, she recently helped transform the foundation into one of the worlds most influential corporate foundations. The launch of its collaborative platform known as together, stronger, a catalyst for shared prosperity that unites businesses, nonprofits, government, and citizen. To combinene their strength to alleviate poverty for millions of people worldwide. Please give a warm savannah welcome to michele sullivan. Thank you so much and, and thank you to to the festival people you put on a tremendous event. Also to savannah its my first time here and i absolutely love it and i will definitely return. I also love the weather. When i left home yesterday in illinois it was minus eight. So i greatly appreciate the 60 something degree weather today. [laughter] i also thank you for your time today. Takeke her home and treat her like everybody else. Thats advice doctor gave my parents over five decades ago. [laugh ....
Good afternoon and welcome to the final presentation of the day. Im happy to welcome you to the 13th annual savanna book festival. Presented by georgia power, bob, david and nancy and the philip and nancy be foundation. They are especially grateful to jack, our sponsors for this beautiful venue. Quick housekeeping notes that youve probably heard multiple times today, first, signing copies of her book immediately following her presentation. Please turn off your cell phones so they dont disrupt the presentation. We also ask that you not use flash photography. Later, as you ask at the venue, he will seek volunteers with yellow buckets and they will happily take your donations to the savanna book festival. Please help us to continue sharing the love of books with the public. Well have the opportunity for questions and answers at the end of the talk. Please come to the microphone at the center aisle to ask your question. Michelle solomon is with us today, courtesy of jim and christina and r ....
Together stronger. A catalyst for shared prosperity that unites businesses, nonprofits, government and citizens to combine their strength to alleviate poverty for millions of people worldwide. Please give a warm welcome to michelle sullivan. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you to savanna book festival for the fabulous event. My first time here, i absolutely love it. Ill definitely return. I also love the weather. When i left home yesterday, it was minus eight in illinois. I deeply appreciate the 60 some degrees weather today. [laughter] i also thank you for your time today. Take it home and treated like its everybody else. Thats advice that my parents said five decades ago. The day i was born. This is after he discovered i had a type of dwarfism which a few years later, they found out was a very rare type of dwarfism. I like to think my parents would have done that anyway, take me home and treat me like everybody else but the affirmation is always nice. You may not think that was a ....
[inaudible] theres only one that can administer anesthesia. So we developed a program from the Ge Foundation and with collaboration with the u. S. University, university intensity, to train doctors to be able to administer anesthesia. And we hope that this program can increase the number of Health Workers that can administer anesthesia to solve that problem in most of the rural places. Just this week, the same problem, just going back to the republic of south sudan, having completed that training in kenya. And you might wonder what is that . It sounds like such a small number are believe it or not the country has only three for the 10 Million People before this program started. So its a huge increase based on what they had before. But then theres another big problem that we face in the hospitals, whether its from the gove ....
Theres an army of women ready to support the, and theyre all over the world. That kind of confidence comes from knowing that they exist. But what we found when we did a study in 2013 is that women are sadly left behind in terms of internet access. In our report women in the web which we did with your assist and you with women in polls, we identified how large this gap is. Unfortunately, in Subsaharan Africa is the largest gap that we identified. These women and girls are being left behind for a variety of reasons that been mentioned today. We found that when they have access to the internet have access to education, the information that can help them with health care, job creation, Society Development and disempowerment that comes to meeting others that are like you. And so we know that by closing that gap we can make a tremendous impact. We have been committed to a g ....