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[Deb]

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The 8 most powerful leaders in the world
50,000 people are dying, needlessly, every day of extreme poverty.

At this year's G8 summit meeting, it is within your power to put an end to this tragedy. It is an extraordinary opportunity which it would be shameful to ignore. We urge you to take these 3 steps to make extreme poverty history...
double the aid sent to the world's poorest countries,
fully cancel their debts,
change the trade laws so that they can build their own future.
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[Athlon_9800]

Signed, ha, what's with the 10 needed characters?

[ssadams]

did it this morning

[Shaker™]

done...:)...

[freestylegreek]

This might be a real dumb question but since Bill Gates is suppose to be the richest guy in the world you would think he would really help these people out.

[justabitcrazee]

This might be a real dumb question but since Bill Gates is suppose to be the richest guy in the world you would think he would really help these people out.

Bill gates is rich for a reason.

[freestylegreek]

Ya and him not even getting off his rich butt to do anything.

[blinky]

how do you know he hasn't?

[prarie]

Gates and his wife have donated over 5 Billion dollars to charity so far. No one else has come close.

[simplysic]

done .......done ..........and done....

[freestylegreek]

Ya Charity but would like to see him donate all the money to help people in these countries that need help. If he has donated alot of money it would be all over the news but all ive seen are people protesting.

[prarie]

Oops over 8 Billion since inception. As for all over the news...
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Grants/default.htm

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm

Working for a More Equitable World
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is committed to promoting greater equity in global health, education, public libraries, and support for at-risk families in Washington state and Oregon.

The foundation was created in January 2000, through the merger of the Gates Learning Foundation, which worked to expand access to technology through public libraries, and the William H. Gates Foundation, which focused on improving global health. Led by Bill Gates’ father, William H. Gates Sr., and Patty Stonesifer, the Seattle-based foundation has an endowment of approximately $28.8 billion.

http://www3.sympatico.ca/truegrowth/gates1.html
"Before he began giving money away, people complained that he was a miser. Now that he is giving money away, they complain that he’s doing it too late, that he isn’t giving enough, that he hasn’t a clue about what he’s getting into, that the projects he is financing are too conservative, too liberal, too big, too small, too safe, too risky, too conventional, too splashy."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A25456-2003Sep30?language=printer

The Gateses have created a foundation worth $25 billion, the largest in the world, and have pledged to give it most of the rest of their $46 billion fortune, derived largely from stock in Bill Gates's company, Microsoft Corp.

Their foundation far exceeds in assets some better-known names in American philanthropy. It is 10 times the size of the Rockefeller Foundation and three times the size of the Ford Foundation. It is only slightly larger than the Wellcome Trust, a London charity that was once the world's largest, but the Gates Foundation has adopted a more intensive focus on saving lives in poor countries.


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