Bill And Teds African Journey
POSTED: Dec 9, 2007
Logan, Utah-- Bill Gates and Ted Turner were seen getting off of a private jet together earlier today in Abuja, Nigeria. This visit to Africa comes as a result of several meetings and phone conversations with African officials regarding a healthcare education project in Nigeria and other countries in Africa, according to Mayor Malik Ok of Abuja. An official announcement on the project, according to Gates, will come within the next month.
Speculation over the visits suggests that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Ted Turner are planning on funding a project to help educate the African people. "We just don’t have the funds to educate our people", Mayor Ok said, when asked about Gates and Turners contributions he described them as very generous individuals.
The general plan as described by Ok is to build more educational facilities to educate his people on healthcare topics so that less people die from diseases in Africa. The education Ok says is "Not for degrees but for health, too many infants are dying”.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is guided by the belief that every life has equal value, and works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. The accomplishments of the foundation stretch from the United States around the globe.
Ted Turner created the United Nations Foundation in 1997 and strongly encouraged others to engage in a new spirit of philanthropy aimed at creating a better world. And he promised to utilize the UN Foundation to help foster a new spirit of philanthropy throughout the world.
Warren Buffett, who has donated billions to the gates foundation and many others, is also a large contributor to the project.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
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