Bill and Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done
ביל ומלינדה גייטס: למה ויתור על העושר שלנו היה הדבר המספק ביותר שעשינו
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,
שווה אלף מילים,
אי פעם באפריקה,
כל כך הרבה זמן
היו האנשים,
על החוף
so many kids around the world,
כל כך הרבה ילדים ברחבי העולם,
הזדמנות שווה
לבחור תמונה
וממחישה את עבודתכם
כשאני נמצאת בנסיעה
lots of countries in Africa,
הרבה במדינות באפריקה,
בזריקה הזו."
about childhood vaccines,
על חיסונים בגיל הילדות,
getting called Depo-Provera,
שנקרא "דפו-פרוברה",
talk to global health experts,
עם מומחי בריאות עולמיים,
אמצעי מניעה
להשתמש בו
my husband knowing it,
של אמצעי מניעה
here in the United States,
למצוא את האדם
צריכה לעשות זאת.
women in the United States
בארה"ב
כמה מיליוני ילדים מדי שנה,
טוב, אם אנו יכולים להמציא חיסונים חדשים,
we can perform a miracle.
שאנו יכולים לגרום לנס לקרות.
על כך,
כדי לומר שסיוע,
ולא עלו יפה.
מאשר הון סיכון, נראה לי,
לעבוד יחד.
לעבוד עם בעלי.
ואנחנו לא --
we're traveling separately,
שאנו נוסעים לחוד
collaborative relationship.
מערכת יחסים של שיתוף פעולה.
כל רגע ביחד, זה בטוח.
ואנחנו מאד שמחים על כך.
הוא עבר ממיקרוסופט
months after you were there.
MG: Oh, you mean, the employees didn't go away.
מ.ג: הו, אתה מתכוון, שהעובדים לא הלכו משם.
though? Can you? (Laughter)
את יכולה? (צחוק)
on these global statistics."
הסטטיסטיקות העולמיות האלה. "
ולראות אם הם תואמים
את טיפות הפוליו האלו
של אורך זמן להגיע
אנו יכולים להרשות לעצמנו כשלונות אחדים,
או חיסונים
לגבי תרופה
לקבל את זה,
לדבר עליהם?
גדול או קטן,
מוכן עבור המכללה.
במערכת היחסים שלהם.
and her mother would do,
נהגו לעשות,
היא היתה בגיל ההתבגרות,
going to pay for her education.
לשלם עבור הלימודים שלה.
privacy carefully for obvious reasons.
בזהירות, מסיבות מובנות
to give back to the world.
לתת לעולם בחזרה.
countries around the world —
שאנו מאמינים
הולך לשים זאת
before we got married,
לפני שנישאנו.
and a short version of that.
וגירסה קצרה של זה.
who is doing something well,
שעושה משהו טוב,
BG: We had never expected it,
ב.ג: מעולם לא ציפינו לכך,
באופן די דרמטי.
זה מדהים --
מה אתם נותנים להם?
working on and discovering
לעבוד עליהם ולגלות
change the education system
לשנות את מערכת החינוך
ועבור כל מה שאתם עושים.
MG: Thank you.
MG: Thank you very much.
מ.ג: תודה רבה לכם
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."
Melinda Gates | Speaker | TED.com
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.
Bill Gates | Speaker | TED.com