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Bill gates have a question for employees in his charitable foundation, which She recently announced will cost $ 200 billion to reduce the pain and death among the poorest in the world.
“How do you take care of people?” THE Microsoft The examiner asked the annual encounter at the Gate Foundation this month. “We need to have a game somewhat.”
Hundreds of employees at the foundation gates – Multiple Indian Country Offices in India, in South Africa along the streets of the wings of the spikes of Seattle, wash.
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This year’s incident comes in an extraordinary time: Employees have just learned that the operation they work is never coming 20 years from now. On its 25th anniversary, the gates of gate has been announced after doubling spending in the next 20 years, it Shutter operations. $ 200 billion costs are the greatest philanthropic commitment in modern history.
Walking on the dark auditorium, the gates received a standing fix from mezzanine to the front row. “We are in a unique milestone,” as the coffounder of the foundation. Started the gates by celebrating the progress made in the first-quarter-century foundation, including reduced half of childhood deathsand successes fight malaria, polio, and other contagious diseases. He took his talking about people – his mother, father, with Philanthropist Warren Buffett, and Ex-wife and Foundation co-founder Melinda French.
However, the tone is far from triumph. Even as the gates set up the great ambitions of the foundation – including the elimination of polio and malaria, and reduced deaths from tuberculosis and HIV by 90% to have warned, Slowed to rarely in the sectorand said that the new decay Cut the help with the aid From the United States and other primary countries who donate threatens the last progress in two decades.
“We will take the best job to get it back, our advocacy to know the resources,” told the staff gates. And he said, he looks for “strange, short-term change, so we can get what’s left and actually get the numbers to come back in the right direction.”
CEO Mark Suzman spoke for many when he expressed the rage of cutting cuts from the rich countries. The gates and his foundation have made the decision to follow the ambitions of public health before the main international aid in the United States, USAID – and many other countries also cut their budgets.
“Don’t go wrong, we enter a new season, where you hear, the poorest people in the world will never trust strong, steady support from the richest nations of the world,” Suzman said. “It’s ok to be disappointed … we never think we need to fight well to justify the importance of our work.” But he continued: “It was a fight we were ready.”
Reached after the gathering, a staff of the foundation saying that the status of the companions “more optimistic and enthusiastic” after $ 200 billion. “We are more powerful to think about what to build inheritance and how we work ourselves in a job by building the local capacity and empowering our mission partners,” the staff wrote to wealth.
Suzman said the purposes of the foundation were unchanged. “If critical coalitions are as collapsed before our eyes, we cannot control our ambitions,” he said. “If the very idea of hope for a better future starts recovery or no-dating, we should remind people who cannot be exposed.
The gates asked his employees to restore their driving to achieve the main mission of the foundation, bring new partners, and invest in a role of seizing drugs. “I really believe, and I hope it’s not a bad belief, we can achieve – despite the headwinds – more than the next 20 years than the first 25,” he said.
This story originally shown Fortune.com
