The Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, suggests that with a little more than $7 billion, philanthropists could get vaccines to 300 million people. The foundation calls for increased philanthropic giving to combat poverty, disease, and inequality.
The Co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates . The foundation’s CEO suggests that with a little more than $7 billion, philanthropists could get vaccines to 300 million people.The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has called for increased philanthropic giving to advance solutions proven to save and improve millions of lives.
, in an official statement Thursday, philanthropists need to give more to meet the unprecedented challenges nations across the globe face in combating poverty, eradicating disease, and fighting inequality.Citing the Forbes’ 37th annual 2023 World’s Billionaires List, which revealed that the net worth of the world’s 2,640 billionaires is at least $12.2 trillion, Mr Suzman suggests that with just $1 billion in additional giving, philanthropists could save the lives of 2 million additional mothers and babies by 2030. He noted that with $4 billion, philanthropists could help half a billion smallholder farmers become more climate resilient and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by or gigaton a year by 203
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