Project for Citizenship stage 2.

1. 12thBR Venture to Health
The Gates Foundation

2. Bill Gates
Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft and one of the richest men on Earth.
He is the founder of many philanthropic organisations, most notably the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, or simply the Gates Foundation.
He used to work part time as the Chief Software Architect at Microsoft and worked full
time at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation concurrently but has now past the role of
Chief Software Architect to Ray Ozzie and works full time completely at the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation

3. Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates met and married her husband, Bill Gates while working in Microsoft in
1994.
Melinda Gates helped her husband, Bill Gates create the Gates Foundation.
Her and her husband have donated a total of $30 billion to the Foundation.
In 2002, Bill and Melinda Gates received the Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting
the Disadvantaged.

4. History of the foundation
The Gates Foundation was founded in 2000 by Bill and Melinda Gates.
They founded this foundation as they wanted to develop cheap affordable medical tools
and facilities for poor, underdeveloped countries to use.
It slowly grew to become the World’s largest private foundation.
The Foundation is now one of the leaders in venture philanthropy.
In June 25 2006, one of the world’s richest men, Warren Buffett, pledged a sum of
approximately 10 million dollars to the foundation in order for the Gates to further their
efforts in helping the underprivileged.
In 31 December 2014, it received an endowment of $44.3 billion.

5. Impacts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
They created savings accounts, insurance and other financial services that were made
available to people in living on less than two dollars a day.
They identify and fund solutions that have a high impact on people living in poor health
care.
They deliver drugs, vaccines and diagnostics to people in developing countries with poor
healthcare together with discovering solutions that are affordable and reliable.
They invest heavily in vaccines to prevent infectious diseases like HIV, polio and malaria.

6. Credits & Sources
Done by:Caleb Hwang,Ethan Chia,Ethan Lim(Group Leader),Tan Yuancheng
Sources:
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation#History