 Okay, the boss gets his chance Andrew Schwartz senior vice president CSIS Mrs. Gates when Nina and I dreamed up this series This is what we envisioned. Thank you for being here. You are the gold standard the platinum standard. Thank you for being here My question is a simple one I you know I read your piece on medium last week about Sabita who you mentioned before I Often find that in the United States There's not enough coverage in the media of all the issues we're talking about What can we and what can the foundation do better to? Publicize these stories to build more momentum for more things to actually happen. Yeah, thanks for that question That's it's hugely important. I would also just add to that I mean, I think a lot of Americans think that foreign aid is a black hole as you know And you know, how do you get the message across that there have been games? Yeah So so if you pull most Americans They think that we spend 10% of the US budget on foreign aid 10% and we spend actually less than 1% And those dollars are really well spent. So we're trying to get the message out that those investments are making a difference Why can we even talk about polio almost being eradicated? Investments, why can we talk about vaccines being such a good? Making so much progress for childhood deaths. It's those investments, but we need the public your point is exactly right We need the public on board understanding that that makes a difference both humanitarian wise They need to understand that these economies, you know in Africa a lot of the countries They have the goal right of growing from a low-income economy to a middle-income South Korea has done that transition and if we get them on the right path aid isn't forever so economically it makes sense and Selfishly for our own peace and security We want people to stay where they are they want to stay where they are So if they have the means and the livelihood and the health they will so one of the things We're just Embarked on with our many partners including the global poverty project But all of the NGOs in the sector save the children care oxfam World Vision is an initiative called global citizen To and you'll hear us speak about this more and more and more throughout the the year It's to try and get many people and particularly young people and people who care about it like in this room connected to global Development and global health in these issues to understand the progress that's actually being made have a website They can go to to learn about more and get updates But then to go and be activists to say to our government we care about this we care about your investments in vaccines We care about people not going hungry. We need that public will so any innovative ideas You all have about how to get stories out not the destitute stories I mean that's for me is what so hard is I read you know on the front of you know a newspaper Let's say, you know, I read the New York Times which they do amazing coverage But it's always the destitute story when I go to Africa what I see is the amazing ingenuity and the change That's going on and so somehow we need to get those pieces of the story out, too And it's those changes that are happening in part because of some of the investments the Infrastructure investments we're helping make as a world into their infrastructure of global health and roads Etc. And that's what will set them on their way to lift themselves up, which is their ultimate goal