[Am-info] World's richest man tries to hold back 'gathering tempest' with 63m gift

[Erick Andrews]

[...]

Mr Gates said he had chosen to give money to India because the country had contributed
an "amazing amount" to the software industry and to Microsoft. "There is a desire to give
something back because of that," he added. His charity, the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, is the world's second largest philanthropic organisation after the Wellcome
Trust. 

Yesterday's $100m pledge to India is its largest donation. The funds would be spent on
mobile populations at greater risk of contracting HIV, such as truck drivers, migrant
labourers and construction workers, aides explained. 

Mr Gates, whose wife Melinda gave birth six weeks ago to their third child, yesterday said
he was merely "lucky" to have accumulated a bank balance of $43bn. He now wanted to
give it away. 

"When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that
on to one's children. That distorts their life situation," he said. 

[...]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,7369,838353,00.html


I am truly touched.

-- 
Erick Andrews