Voices of other participants

"Market-based capitalism works well for the developed world, but our human values and compassion are needed to save these children. Markets alone won't do this."

- Bill Gates,
CEO of Microsoft and Co-Founder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

"Young people have taught us, and continue to teach us, that if we don't change our attitude we cannot help them."

- Father Clyde Harvey,
Community Action Resource (for HIV support), Trinidad and Tobago

"I come to speak before you as a housewife…..the family will continue to be the last stronghold against the challenge of history."

- Lila T. Albaunza de Bolanos

"Everything must be done so that children can be conceived, born, raised and educated in a family that is capable of offering protection and example, in a positive and permanent way, as irreplaceable elements of their upbringing."

- Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo,
President of the Pontifical Council for the Family