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Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, have been married for 27 years. [Courtesy]
Billionaire benefactors Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of one of the world’s largest private charitable foundations, filed for divorce on Monday after 27 years of marriage but pledged to continue their philanthropic work together.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has become one of the most powerful and influential forces in global public health, spending more than $50 billion over the past two decades to bring a business approach to combating poverty and disease.
The Gates have backed widely praised programs in malaria and polio eradication, child nutrition and vaccines. The foundation last year committed some $1.75 billion to COVID-19 relief.
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The world’s fourth richest man, valued at $124.5 billion, told how he managed to stay positive when faced with impossibly large tasks.
He attributes part of his optimism to the amount of books he reads.
Gates has been a voracious reader of history which allows him to see the many possibilities the future holds. Overall, life is getting better - progress will continue to take place,” Gates said at a virtual summit in 2020. “From technology to telemedicine to advances in health care, we ve opened up maybe 12 years of progress in just a year.
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