With the COVID-19 pandemic and its many sorrows has come a new appreciation for essential workers, and now a Roman Catholic nun in Zambia has been named one of “seven unsung heroes” by wealthy philanthropist Bill Gates. Gates recently featured Sr. Astridah Banda in his popular “Gates Notes” newsletter and…
Africans from four nations who live in poverty but are making progress are among those featured in a new blog post from billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. “What’s life like on less than $2 a day? While I can quote many statistics about trends in poverty, it’s difficult for most of us—especially…
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has named 10 breakthrough technologies that will help to reinvent the future, and listed them in a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Review article published Wednesday. Gates said he first thought of the plow, in use since 4000 BCE, while contemplating how technologies create…
For this year’s annual letter, Bill and Melinda Gates took on 10 tough questions people ask about their philanthropy work. Here’s what the Microsoft founder, shown here in Tanzania, said about President Donald Trump and the impact on United States foreign aid policies: How are President Trump’s policies affecting your…
Women from Kenya and Nigeria are among five people singled out as everyday heroes by philanthropist Bill Gates in a recent post on his popular Gates Notes blog. “No masks or capes but these heroes are saving the world,” writes Gates before listing Segenet Kelemu and Adaora Okoli among them….
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged USD$300 million to support agricultural research to help smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia meet the challenges of climate change. Bill Gates announced the initiative at this week’s One Planet Summit in Paris, as one of several key investment partnerships in agriculture;…
As communities across the globe mark July 11 as World Population Day, leaders in London gathered for the Family Planning Summit will be joined by counterparts across Africa who are participating in concurrent events to address the power of the continent’s demographic dividend potential – and its problems and pitfalls….
Newly elected Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who will take up his position as director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) on July 1, is in the United States this week to meet with a wide range of stakeholders on global health issues. Tedros, in the first of planned visits…
By Aliko Dangote and Bill Gates This week, more than 138,000 vaccinators will fan out across five African countries in the Lake Chad area in a push to eliminate polio in Africa and rid the world of this terrible disease forever. They will take boats across fast-flowing rivers, ride jeeps…
Microsoft founder and global philanthropist Bill Gates decided to start off his 2017 “Gates Notes” blog with five reasons he’s optimistic about the coming year – and those five reasons, he says, are in Africa. This week’s blog post has been getting a little buzz because Gates, it turns out,…