Bill Gates consideres his Foundation´s partners will continue participating

Hello everybody! 

      I chose this article because of the topic: charity. Here is the link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99816984 

    Bill Gates is not only the chairman of Microsoft, he is co-chair of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. And last year he published his first annual letter of the foundation. Reporter asked him about the thought that took him to the keyboard. He said it was because one of his friends encouraged him to share with the people his toughths and points of view of what is going on inside the foundation and other issues. He is very excited about what people e-mailed and he realized that it is daunting not to have an  answer for all of those questions. But, he is pleased with starting a dialogue with people. His letter has been compared with that written by the Gospel of the Wealth. Bill Gates shares with him the point of sharing wealth, but he explained that he read this one a long time ago before comming a wealth man. Reporter asked him about current global economic collapse and his decision of being for full-time in the Foundation almost at the same time. He said he has planned this before it occurred, and that he knew since the beginning that his company would have twists and turns as many others. And that Microsoft leadership will continue (no matter the 5000 layoffs occurred). Other point of this interview was if people were still interested in participate in this, as they could think that Gates is pouring his wealth. He answered that people is still interested, it has not been a fact against charity. Finally, he said that the main goal of this year is to maintain the interest of his Foundation´s partners to still participate in this, and reach this long-term goals.

I think that Bill Gates´s interest of being involved in charity is honest. And listen to him could encourage people to get involved in all this issues. This time is hard to deal with the idea to give some money for somebody who are not ourselves. But, you can see how people have become more sensible to lacks of people, so charity in our days has changing. I think that big charities might be out of order, but small charities might be more frequent and relevant nowdays. So, the manner that he is trying to get more partners (small partners, maybe like us) will influence on this movement, no only for his Foundation. On the other side, he is pushing other presidents of big companies to do the same throug his attitude.