Bill and Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done
Бил и Мелинда Гейтс: Защо да дарим богатството си беше най-удоволетворителното нещо, което сме правили
Melinda French Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she puts into practice the idea that every life has equal value. Full bioBill Gates - Philanthropist
A passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world while leading Microsoft to dizzying success. Now he's doing it again with his own style of philanthropy and passion for innovation. Full bio
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interview with a difference.
is worth a thousand words,
струва колкото хиляда думи,
всъщност отидохме
и как бихме могли да подходим.
so many kids around the world,
толкова много деца по света,
и тези, които са се провалили,
за равни възможности,
толкова повече осъзнавахме,
да правя, когато пътувам,
lots of countries in Africa,
about childhood vaccines,
getting called Depo-Provera,
наречена Депо-Провера,
talk to global health experts,
my husband knowing it,
защото така мога да разделеча
here in the United States,
които имаме тук в САЩ,
women in the United States
ако изобретим нови ваксини,
данни относно тези неща,
we can perform a miracle.
можем да сътворим чудо.
докато ние сме още живи.
да се грижат за себе си,
от инвеститорите в рискови капитали,
we're traveling separately,
на които сме по отделно,
collaborative relationship.
връзка на сътрудничество.
months after you were there.
MG: Oh, you mean, the employees didn't go away.
МГ: О, имаш предвид... служителите не си тръгнаха.
когато Майкрософт се разрастна,
though? Can you? (Laughter)
on these global statistics."
на тези глобални статистики."
за да видя дали съвпадат,
да сложи тези капки за полио
по-успешна благодарение на това.
прекъсват образованието си.
взаимоуважение и любов.
and her mother would do,
Грейс и майка й правеха,
но тя беше срамежлива.
всички лампи бяха изгасени,
going to pay for her education.
и това, което ще постигат.
което да ги развълнува.
privacy carefully for obvious reasons.
животи по обясними причини.
to give back to the world.
да връщаме обратно на света.
countries around the world —
много държави по света --
да покажем тази снимка
before we got married,
че няма да направим услуга
and a short version of that.
who is doing something well,
който се справя добре с нещо
BG: We had never expected it,
БГ: Не го очаквахме
активите си за благотворителност.
working on and discovering
толкова добре
change the education system
образователната система
MG: Thank you.
МГ: Благодаря.
MG: Thank you very much.
МГ: Много ви благодаря.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Melinda Gates - PhilanthropistMelinda French Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she puts into practice the idea that every life has equal value.
Why you should listen
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. As co-chair, Melinda French Gates helps shape and approve strategies, review results, advocate for foundation issues and set the overall direction. In developing countries, the foundation focuses on improving people's health with vaccines and other life-saving tools and giving them a chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to dramatically improve education so that all young people have the opportunity to reach their full potential. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill Gates, Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
In recent years, Melinda French Gates has become a vocal advocate for access to contraception, advancing the idea that empowering women to decide whether and when to have children can have transformational effects on societies. In 2012, Gates spearheaded the London Summit on Family Planning, with the goal of delivering contraceptives to 120 million women in developing countries by 2020. When asked why she got involved in this issue, Gates said, "We knew that 210 million women were saying they wanted access to the contraceptives we have here in the United States and we weren't providing them because of political controversy in our country. To me, that was just a crime. I kept looking around trying to find the person to get this back on the global stage. I realized I just had to do it."
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Bill Gates - Philanthropist
A passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world while leading Microsoft to dizzying success. Now he's doing it again with his own style of philanthropy and passion for innovation.
Why you should listen
Bill Gates is the founder and former CEO of Microsoft. A geek icon, tech visionary and business trailblazer, Gates' leadership -- fueled by his long-held dream that millions might realize their potential through great software -- made Microsoft a personal computing powerhouse and a trendsetter in the Internet dawn. Whether you're a suit, chef, quant, artist, media maven, nurse or gamer, you've probably used a Microsoft product today.
In summer of 2008, Gates left his day-to-day role with Microsoft to focus on philanthropy. Holding that all lives have equal value (no matter where they're being lived), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has now donated staggering sums to HIV/AIDS programs, libraries, agriculture research and disaster relief -- and offered vital guidance and creative funding to programs in global health and education. Gates believes his tech-centric strategy for giving will prove the killer app of planet Earth's next big upgrade.
Read a collection of Bill and Melinda Gates' annual letters, where they take stock of the Gates Foundation and the world. And follow his ongoing thinking on his personal website, The Gates Notes. His new paper, "The Next Epidemic," is published by the New England Journal of Medicine.
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