The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was founded by Bill and Melinda Gates to improve healthcare and reduce poverty worldwide. It works to help people escape poverty by finding solutions to global problems. Some examples of their efforts include recruiting scientists to find cures for diseases like Zika and Ebola, providing online education, building houses for those who cannot afford housing, and donating chickens to address hunger in rural Africa. The foundation has spent over $60 billion to boost research and improve living standards globally through its investments in healthcare facilities.

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Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation
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2. Current situation on poverty
Today over 3 billion people earn less than 2.50USD/day that's less than
100USD a month.
Around 1 billion of them are children
About ¼ of earth’s popula tion live without electricity
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3. Founders of the organisation
Founded by Bill & Melinda Gates.
Controlled by its three trustees: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
The primary aims of the organization are to improve healthcare and reduce
poverty all over the world.
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4. What does the organization do?
The Gates foundation works to help the people around the world to get out of
their poverty state.
The organizations find problems around the world and try to find ways to
solve the problem using their money
The recruit scientists to find cure for Zika and Ebola . They also have online
teachers to help to spread education across the world.
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5. History of The Gates Foundation.
Melinda and Bill gates read an article which talked about the the quality of
water in underdeveloped countries is poor.
They also knew that the reason behind this was due to people living in
poverty.
From this they wanted to do something about it and they started the Bill and
Melinda Foundation.
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6. What they did to tackle poverty
The Gates foundation spent 60 billion dollars to improve the living standards
around the world.
They helped to improve the living standards by building houses for those that
cannot afford it.
For people living in hunger due to poverty in rural parts of Africa, Bill gates
donated 100,000 chicken to fill the poor’s stomach.
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7. The Impact of the organisation
By spending presenting they have boosted the research focus of public
agencies.
They also spend their money usefully by spending money on healthcare
facilities.
In 2006 the organisation convinced warren buffett to pledge 10million dollars
worth of shares now worth 1.5 billion USD
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8. Credits: Google, Google images
Team members: Zaiver, Marcus Hon, Ong lei, R. Arunn
Sources:www.gatesfoundation.org,
Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation
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