What drives Melinda French Gates?

Africa Daily - Podcast autorstwa BBC World Service

For more than 20 years she’s been co-chair of the world’s largest private foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which works with projects aiming to fight poverty, inequality and infectious diseases. For years the foundation has poured billions of dollars into global health, education for girls among many others. And at a recent gathering in Kigali, The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation committed money to a $4 billion pledge to help eradicate malaria and neglected tropical diseases – NTDs - which haven’t received as much attention in the past. In a wide raging interview, Alan Kasujja speaks with Melinda French Gates to learn more about the causes close to her heart, who she is and what drives her. Host: Alan Kasujja Guest: Melinda French Gates

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