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On October 5th of 2005, the foundation donated a significant amount to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization fund. They gave $750 million to underwrite its vaccination programs. $30 million was granted to establish a new department of Global Health at the University of Washington. They targeted professionals in health also with physicians, doctors, nurses, social workers to work on vaccines to prevent and treat diseases.
There were able to hire at least 14 new manners to support more that 4oo graduate students and staff members. By 2015 they had more than 250 million indigent children. The Gates foundation uses technology and science to combat infection diseases the particularly affect the poorest. For example, acceleration progress to eradicate malaria, reduce HIV infection and extend lives for people with HIV, deliver lifesaving vaccines where there needed most, and rid polio and so much more.
Food and nutrition
Vaccines
Each year millions of children die due to hunger, and they physically suffer from mental impairments due to poor nutrition. The children either don’t have food or have the right kind of food for their nutrition to support normal growth and development. Most of the time, it happens before the pregnancy because the mother hasn’t had the right amount of nutrition for her baby to develop healthfully.
Over the past decade, research had dramatically expanded the understanding, and the foundation helped improved nutrition for women and children (as well as men too). They reach about 1,000 mothers and children each day. The goal for the Gates Foundation in this specific topic is to prevent 1.8 million related deaths by 2020.
In October of 2000, the Gates Cambridge scholarship program, managed to establish with a grant over $200 million for graduating students who lived on the outside of the Untied Kingdom to study at Cambridge University. The program subsidizes 100 new scholar each year for the students. Because of the financial assistance, the students who are involved with these programs pursue their dreams related to world health and technology.
Promoting Education
The foundation has accomplished so many things over two decades, accomplished many goals, saved lives, and so much more to help people all over the world.
Making a Difference
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