The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was established in 2000 with the goal of improving global health and reducing extreme poverty. It has invested $10 billion over 10 years to research, develop, and deliver vaccines to developing countries. Some impacts of the foundation's work include enabling informed family planning, increasing agriculture productivity in Africa and Asia to reduce hunger, and reducing deaths from diseases like malaria and polio.

1. About the Bill
and Melinda
Gates
Foundation
Done By: Hartge Ong, Ong
Jing Lin, Hor Jun Le, Kong
Jia Geng, James Lau, Leon
Tan

2. About Malaria
★ Malaria is a female mosquito-borne infectious disease.
★ Over the past few years, it has been a deadly epidemic that has taken many lives,
especially those in southern Africa, with deaths accounting to 1 million people in 2008.
★ This is due to the hot and usually dry climate in Africa, where droughts often happen,
with temperatures reaching 40 degrees celsius.
★ Majority of these deaths were children with an age of not above five. This is because
young children have not yet established any immunity against such a dangerous
disease.

3. Introduction to SE
★ Due to the overwhelming number of deaths caused by malaria and other diseases, a
few organisations have been set up to alleviate this issue, such as the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation.
★ It was founded in 2000.
★ It works on the belief that “all lives have equal value”
★ The main aims of the foundation is to improve healthcare and reduce extreme poverty
around the world
★ In the USA, it aims to create more educational opportunities and access to information
and technology

4. ★ Launched in 2000
★ Launched HIV/AIDS Prevention Branch in India in 2003.
★ Bill Gates left Microsoft to work at the foundation in 2008.
★ Declared the Decade of Vaccines in 2010, pledging $10 billion over 10 years to
research, develop and deliver vaccines to the poorest countries around the world.
History of their venture

5. Impact of their venture
★ Over the past two decades, tremendous progress has been made towards the
eradication of polio
★ Enabling women to make informed decisions about whether and when to have children
reduces maternal and newborn deaths
★ Reduces hunger and poverty for millions of farming families in Sub-Saharan Africa and
South Asia by increasing agricultural productivity in a sustainable way
★ Reduce number of deaths due to malaria and other diseases in countries in Africa
★ Create opportunities for all children in Washington State to thrive in stable families,
great schools, and strong communities

6. References
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/what-we-do
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/gates-foundation-accused-of-
dangerously-skewing-aid-priorities-by-promoting-big-business-a6822036.html
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/General-Information/History