Microsoft founder left the idea of maintaining his condition for future generations and plans to use it to combat global problems.
The American billionaire and founder of the Microsoft Bill Gates announced plans to distribute its conditions of approximately $ 200 billion over the next 20 years. CNN reported it.
He made such a decision to accelerate the work of his funding in global health initiatives, overcome poverty and resistance to deadly infectious diseases.
Gates, who in 2010 launched a promise of promotion with his ex -wife Melinda French Gates and investor Warren Buffetus, aimed to inspire other billions -billions to sacrifice most of his conditions for charity. To date, this initiative has been supported by more than 240 people.
“When I died, people were talking about many different things, but I strongly decided that” he died rich “is not one of them. I have a lot of problems that need to be solved to handle resources that can be used to help people,” Gates wrote on his blog.
Over the next two decades, the Gates Foundation plans to focus in three main directions:
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reduces the degree of death of mother and children,
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The resistance to infectious diseases,
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The removal of the road -of millions of people in poverty.
So far, the Gates is estimated to be at 108 billion dollars, putting it in the fifth in the ranking of the richest man in the world according to Bloomberg. However, by 2045, he plans to reduce his capital by 99%, investing it in charity projects through the Gates Foundation.
Earlier it was reported that the daughter of an American businessman and co -Founder of Microsoft Bill Gates – Phoebe Gates – the public first revealed his father’s mind.
Bill Gates will not leave his billion -billions of children
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