Gates essay
The very thought of giving away 30 billion dollars a year is crazy enough but why they do it is even crazier. Bill, Melinda and Bill senior Gates all made a pledge to give away half there wealth before they die or in there will and asked all wealthy people to do the same. The charities they give their money too are involved in world health, education and poverty. They have a foundation visitor centre in Seattle where they display the kind of things they do. They are very into innovation and inspiring future change which involve hosting yearly contests to see who has the best idea related to their theme. As an example they had a contest to see who could create the best toilet to put into a 3rd world countries. The people who competed in the contest would have to build a toilet without access to pluming but still must keep the duty out of the reach of flies. This may seem like fun and games but a lot of people die each year from diseases caused by issues related to poor hygiene with regards to waste.
One of the forefront issues they are directing there funds to, is polio which they helped eradicated 99% of it and is now only in some countries like Afghanistan. Along the way they freed india of it and are on there way to send it out completely.
The gates foundation also gets half of its 4 billion dollar budget from another wealthy business man named Berkshire Hathaway who owns dairy queen. This lifestyle is a fairly new way of thinking and now the normal scenario is; make lots of money spend it then make even more money and give it away.
My opinion to the whole thing is that they are doing the the right thing but their next step is definitely to focus more on the environment. I think this the logical way up because if we do nothing about global warming and climate change then we all cook to death in this greenhouse. But that is something for the future because if we focus too much on the environment then there may not be too much to save. But over all I think they’re heading in the right direction.
They also do work in poverty witch focuses on 3rd world countries like those in Africa and Asia. Hopefully they cause poverty to go on a downward angle now, like they promise on their Plexiglass board at the visitor centre. The foundation only donates to charities that are set up in the 3rd world countries that they can trust to do a good job. Not just go in do the work and leave. Half the money they use 3.6 billion in fact is in checks. Its great that they are so involved in these communities across the world witch is something that you don’t see a lot of people with money do. The visit has really opened my eyes to the way people can all change the world.