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the path out of poverty begins when the next generation can access quality healthcare and a great education. In developing countries, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing, helping individuals lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty.
Explore the latest videos from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Those eight words changed the rest of our lives. We started consulting experts, learning from locals in the countries where we wanted to work, and researching disease and poverty more deeply.
We are focused on the areas of greatest need, on the ways in which we can do the most good. From poverty to health, to education, our areas of focus offer the opportunity to dramatically improve the quality of life for billions of people.
In 2010, Bill, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett founded the Giving Pledge, an effort to encourage the world’s wealthiest families and individuals to publicly commit more than half of their wealth to philanthropic causes and charitable organizations during their lifetime or in their will.
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 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.
Our leaders are guided by the foundation’s mission to create a world in which every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life. We are governed by a board of trustees, which in 2022 was expanded to include the CEO and five independent experts.
We see equal value in all lives. And so we are dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals around the world. From the education of students in Chicago, to the health of a young mother in Nigeria, we are catalysts of human promise everywhere.
