Largest charitable donation ever
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has pledged $10 billion (yes, billion with a b) to vaccination programs.
The funds will be made available over the next decade and Gates hopes
that the funding will bring about a "decade of the vaccine" in order to
reduce child mortality in poverty stricken counties. Boffins believe
his donation could help save more than 8 million lives.
The Gates Foundation has already donated around $4.5 billion for
vaccine research and Gates hopes new technologies and vaccines could
save even more lives in the future. What's there to say. We can only
take a bow…
