If u what to know what the Foundation is working on and its progress, I would like to suggest that you read the 2009 Annual Letter from Bill Gates. You can download it from the Foundation website, under the "About the Foundation" menu or read it online. Though 20 pages but pretty easy to read and informative. For example, it is shocking to know that there are a few diseases that cause half of the children (age 5 and below) deaths worldwide.
As quoted in the annual letter (page 4):
"We were surprised when we saw a newspaper article in 1998 showing that only a few diseases cause most childhood deaths and showing how little money was being invested in creating and providing vaccines for these diseases. A chart in the article showed that a particular type of diarrheal disease — rotavirus— was killing over 400,000 children per year. How could a disease we had never heard of get so little attention and kill this many children? We sent the article to my father and asked him to look into how we could help."
The saying "How could a disease we had never heard of get so little attention and kill this many children?" really gives all a wake-up call and he takes immediate actions to help out.
As reported in zaobao on 26 Jul 09, India presented an award to Bill Gates to recognize the Foundation's effort in contributing to help the needy. In the article, Bill Gates shared that he has given up his facebook account as there are just too many people who wanted to add him as friend - 10,000 people.
Ha...ha...ha... he is still as popular as he was.
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