7. Bill Gates
The wealthiest man on the planet surely knows to appreciate his wealth, which is why he is constantly giving back to the world. Someone may say that for him it is easy to give money, considering how much he has, and while this is true, we shouldn’t forget that there are many billionaires and millionaires in the world, and not all of them are known for their generous donations. Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, however, is, as it is estimated that he has donated more than $28 billion throughout his lifetime. In his interview, published in 2013, in The Telegram, he talks about money and his foundation. “Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world” . In 2000, together with his wife Melinda, he founded the largest private foundation named after them Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In the mentioned interview he talks about his future plans: “My full-time work for the rest of my life will be at the foundation. I still work part-time for Microsoft. The vast majority of the wealth, over 95 percent, goes to the foundation, which will spend all that money within 20 years after neither of us are around any more.” But, his foundation is only one of the many humanitarian organization and causes Bill Gates supported, and we’ll name only a few more: The US Fund for UNICEF (helping efforts in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea), WHO (for emergency operations) etc. His own foundation is mainly focused on helping with the prevention and treatments of the common diseases in the developing countries, like malaria, polio, HIV/AIDS, pneumonia, tuberculosis, gastrointestinal and diarrheal diseases.
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