What Should a Billionarie Give- and What Should You?

I think for Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, the ideal of valuing all human life equally began to jar against reality some years ago, when he read an article about diseases in the developing world and came across the statistic that half a million children die every year from rotavirus, the most common cause of severe diarrhea in children. That shocked him because he assumed that, if there are vaccines and treatments that could save lives, governments would be doing everything possible to get the to the people who need them. That belief in the equal value of all human life is also prominent on the web site of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In the same world in which more than a billion people live at a level of affluence never previously known, roughly a billion other people struggle to survive on the purchasing power equivalent of less than one U.S. dollar per day. According to Unicef, more than 10 million children die every year-about 30, 000 per day-from avoidable, poverty-related causes. Buffett's pledge, set alongside the nearly $30 billion given by Bill and Melinda Gates to their foundation, has made it clear that the first decade of the 21st century is a new "golden age of philanthropy." Gate's and Buffett's donations will now be put to work primarily to reduce poverty, disease and premature death in the developing world. By doing this, GAVI claims to have already averted nearly 1.7 million future deaths.  Many only help out the rich, and they forget about the poor. Not many children can afford vaccines to cure their diseases. Gates believe that "All lives- no matter where they are being led- have equal value."