Charity : Helping Others

Now picture yourself, you are a billionaire, you have everything you always wished to have. And sometimes you might feel uncomfortable with your wealth. You live the good life but a lot of people don’t. The poverty, the famine, the disease affect many parts of the world and you can do something about it with your money. If you want to keep your money for you it’s ok, I am not calling you selfish, but don’t you think that your money could be more useful to someone or something else?

Here is an example of a philanthropic act made by a billionaire. You know Microsoft right? His founder Bill Gates too? But have you heard about the “Bill & Melinda Gates foundation”?

  

The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, is an American Humanist and Philanthropic foundation created in 2000. His aim is to bring the global population innovations in terms of health and knowledge. Bill and Melinda Gates finance this foundation and their annual donations are higher than the expenses of the World Health Organization. Other contributors bring funds, as an example, in June 2006 the American billionaire businessman Warren Buffet gave 37 billion dollars. It employs about 1200 people all around the world. Since its creation, the foundation has paid the amazing amount of 28,3 billion dollars.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet also lead a campaign called “The Giving Pledge” which encourages the wealthiest people in the world to make a commitment to give most of their wealth to philanthropic causes. It a quite a success! In January 2015, 128 billionaires, individuals or couples, have signed the pledge. Among them we can find people such as George Lucas, Mark Zuckerberg and David Rockefeller.

Being a billionaire is something wonderful, we all agree on this. But when you have too much money that you don’t know what to do with, you are able to enter the history and to do something good for the whole world. The different billionaires I talked about in the previous paragraphs all reflect a good image of their selves and moreover they must feel good to help people in need.

“You’ve done everything you want to do with your money, think about others now.”