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Bill Gates' Beneficence , From A Miser to Top Philanthropist

December 10th, 2010 at 06:54 am

Melinda was walking in the lifeless town, with all the shops along the narrow street boarded up, the whole town was just like a place of death. 53.7% of People Complain that they Can not Afford Genuine UGG Boots Classic Short At the open-air market outside the town, several women put very few vegetables on the ground for sale, nothing else. Melinda glanced at the women walking past to see if they had shoes on. The result was disappointing to her. No, they were all barefoot. Her boyfriend, Bill Gates, who accompanied Melinda, didn`t believe what they saw either. At this time, the thirty-eight-year-old man, who had already had several billion dollars, didn`t expect that there were still some people not able to have shoes to wear. However, Gates' compassion is overwhelmed only a little, and he hasn't put it into action. The personality of spending money like water have remained the same. Gate at the present is still stingy.10 Most Gorgeous New Arrivals: UGG Boots Classic Cardy
In 1994, Bill Gates had mixed feelings. On this years` New Year`s Day, he and Melinda married. In the same year, Bill Gates` deeply loved mother died of cancer. Such a huge change had been a great fight to Gates` spirit and feelings. The world's richest man began to rethink the meaning of life and life direction. This year, he took out 94 million dollar to build William H. Gates Foundation which is the former The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation the under his father`s proposal. However, American citizens only noted that his property rose to 12.9 billion U.S. Dollars in 1995, his charity moves rarely mentioned.Hottest, Newest, Latest: UGG Boots Classic Tall
The real turning point began in 1997. In September, America had billions dollars debt to United Nation of membership tax. Short of finance, United Nation was once on the fringe of bankruption. Ted Turner, the pedigree of U.S. Cable News Network, unexpectedly announced one billion U.S. dollars donation to the United Nations to deal with the financial crisis and other development assistance projects. U.S media reported this magnanimous act in a prominent position and described Ted Turner as the leader of the philanthropic tycoon in the new generation. Some newspaper even figured out the fortune and donated money of all the rich people. They went on criticizing Bill Gates for not donating money as the world`s most famous people.
The voices of asking Gates to donate money and make contribution to the society were getting louder and louder in the rendering of the media, pretty soon, it turned into a powerful social stress. But in Gates` view, everyone is different in his way to pay back to the society. Can`t it be counted as contribution to society that Microsoft employs tens of thousands of people, prompts the boom of hi-tech industry and picks up America`s economy? In 1998, when Microsoft was facing with lawsuit, and Gates was suffering from spiritual pain, the "New York Times" published an article saying that 90% of diseases happened in poor countries, but people in these countries had only 10% of the health-care resources. The article had called back the personal experience to Africa in 1993. Since then, the key point of William Gates Foundation has truned to the hygiene area.
Gates' charitable undertakings are steady increased as his rich. He planed to contribute his own property at that time more than 100 billions to help those suffering Aids and malaria patients mainly, and just left 10 millions dollars to his each children. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation started in the basement of the senior Gates' basement office, and later moved into a two-story house in Seattle. The foundation had 216 workers including children`s health consultants, public community health care manage experts, lawyers, financial personnel and so on. It was said that Gates spent 10 hours in coping with the foundation business every week. Gates spoke to his staff transparently that he felt the most completed for recent years by engaging himself in the promotion of world peace, and considered it a meaningful business to be involved in.

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