2. About Mark
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer
programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as
one of five co-founders of the social networking website
Facebook. Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of
Facebook. His personal wealth, as of July 2015, is estimated
to be $38.6 billion. Zuckerberg receives a one-dollar salary as
CEO of Facebook.
3. What Did Mark Do?
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will donate $25 million to the Centers for Disease
Control Foundation, the Facebook founder.The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has infected at least
8,000 people and killed more than 4,000, making it by far the worst in history. The World Health
Organization has estimated that at least $1 billion will be needed to stop it, so Zuckerberg’s donation
will provided much-needed funds.
4. How Did It Impact?
The money will go to the CDC Foundation’s Global Disaster Response Fund, “to help expeditiously
address needs that are identified by CDC experts on the ground, and that could otherwise go unmet,”
the statement said. Those needs include things like:
equipment for community care centers
training local staff
generators
vehicles to transport lab specimens
identifying Ebola cases and tracing their contacts