Bill Gates is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He co-founded Microsoft in 1975 and served as the company's chairman and CEO until 2000. Gates is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and has donated large amounts of money to charitable causes through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which focuses on global health and development. The document provides biographical details about Gates and outlines some of his philanthropic activities and donations through the Gates Foundation to help immunize children and fund programs related to diseases like HIV/AIDS.
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2. Whos Bill Gates??
William Henry Gates III
October 28, 1955 (age 56)
American ,Seattle, Washington, United States
Business man, Investor, philanthropist, and author.
Bill Gates is current chairman of Microsoft, he founded
with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the
worlds wealthiest people.
Bill" Gates best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer
revolution Gates donating large amounts of money to various
charitable organizations
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3. About Bill Gates!!!
At 13, Gates enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive
preparatory school.
Gates was in the Mothers Club. Gates took an interest in
programming the GE system in BASIC, and was excused
from math classes to pursue his interest.
At age 17, Gates formed a venture with Allen, called Traf-O-
Data, to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008
processor.
Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of
Microsoft in January 2000. In June 2006,He gradually
transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie, chief software
architect, and Craig Mundie
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4. What Bill gates did
Bill Gates donate US$100 million to
help immunize children in Melinda Bill
developing countries against
diseases.
Bill and Melinda[Gates wife] Gates
Foundation has funded HIV
prevention programmes.
Bill Gates has pledged to give all of
his 贈30billion ($58billion) fortune to
charity - rather than leaving it for his
children.
The foundation's work ranges from
providing vaccines to prevent
childhood diseases to cutting edge
research to improve agricultural
yields and prevent.
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5. Silver
Buffalo
Award
About US$5billion rounded up altogether from companies in the US
(including the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation), the UK and from Norway.
The results shown:
Pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines delivered to 250million children;
3.4 million lives saved from hepatitis B; Order of
1.2 million lives from measles, the Aztec
Eagle
560,000 from the Hib bacteria,
474,000 from whooping cough,
140,000 from yellow fever
30,000 from polio.
In the past year the new initiatives have prevented:
approximately 8,000 deaths from pneumonia
and 1,000 from diarrhoea. SMILE!
He has attained many titles and earned many awards such as the Silver
Buffalo and the Order of the Aztec Eagle from his philanthropic activities.
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P.S.: -Credits- Thank you.
Thank you, William Henry Gates III (BillGates) for your contribution to society!
Acknowledgements:
1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Books_and_films
2. http://www.google.com.sg/
3. http://www.google.com.sg/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
4. http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/11/02/the-
second-coming-of-bill-gates/2/
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Benjamin chua
Gregory Tan
Chen liqi
Aaron Tay
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7. End of 際際滷show.
P.S.: -Credits- Thank you.
Thank you, William Henry Gates III (BillGates) for your contribution to society!
Acknowledgements:
1.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Books_and_films
2. http://www.google.com.sg/
3. http://www.google.com.sg/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
4. http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/11/02/the-
second-coming-of-bill-gates/2/
Done by
Benjamin chua
Gregory Tan
Chen liqi
Aaron Tay
Citizenship Stage 2