The billionaire Bill Gates announced, on Thursday (8), that he intends to donate almost all his $ 200 billion assets ($ 1.1 trillion) through the Gates Foundation and end the organization by 2045. In an interview with the newspaper Financial TimesMicrosoft’s founder also attacked Elon Musk and recent international aid cuts promoted by the United States.
At 69, Gates, who has been acting exclusively with philanthropy since 2020, when he left Microsoft’s administrative board, said he is accelerating plans to disinfect his fortune and close the Gates Foundation in 20 years. The announcement was made on the organization’s 25th anniversary, in a post on the site titled “My New Term: 20 years to donate virtually all my wealth.”
In addition, Gates criticized Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and key figure in the government of US President Donald Trump, accusing him of “killing the poorest children in the world” with huge American cuts in the humanitarian aid budget.
“The image of the richest man in the world killing the poorest children in the world is not beautiful,” Gates told Financial Times.
Gates said that after the cuts, I would like Musk to visit the children who were now infected with HIV, as he cut funds to a hospital in Mozambique that prevented the transmission of the virus from infected mothers to their babies, in the wrong belief that the US was providing condoms to Hamas in Gaza, the Middle East.
The Government Efficiency Department, led by Musk, cut off the financing of the billions of dollars to health -related causes worldwide, from the development and application of vaccines for children to emergency food care.
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“Died rich”
In a post on his site, Gates claimed to know that people will say many things about him after he dies, but it is determined that “died rich” is not one of them, emphasizing that there are too urgent problems in the world to maintain resources can be used to “help people.”
In the statement, without nominally citing the current US president, the billionaire claims to want to help prevent newborns, children and mothers die from avoidable causes, and end diseases such as polio, malaria and measles and reduce poverty.
Gates also poked other rich countries, such as the United Kingdom and France, wondering if they will continue to defend their most needy populations.
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The founder of Microsoft said that despite the richness of the foundation, progress would not be possible without the support of governments, praising the response of nations leaders in Africa after US help cuts, which promoted budget readjustment.
Still, the founder of Microsoft did not fail to score his concern about the current situation of the planet, emphasizing that there are problems that will not be overcome without the help and financing of the US.
Donation
The Gates Foundation has donated $ 100 billion since its inception. Resources have helped support initiatives such as the Gavi vaccine group and the Global Fund to Combat AIDS, Tuberculosis and Male.
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The entity was created by Gates and his then wife, Melinda, in 2000. Currently, the Foundation has a large participation in the global health sector, with a billionaire annual budget, which is expected to reach $ 9 billion by 2026.
According to Gates, the organization will be closed after 99% of her personal fortune is spent, contrary to expectations that she would remain open in the decades following the death of the billionaire.
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