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Bill Gates Donates Millions

Bill Gates is not only the head of Microsoft but also is considered to be the richest man alive. And what does the richest man alive do with all his billions of dollars? Donating them to stop disease world wide may not have been your first answer, but that is precisely what Mr. Gates is doing with quite a few millions. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has donated $600 million in additional funds to The Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis.

BBC reports he had already pledged $300-million to the campaign, which aims to treat 50 million people over the next 10 years. The program is supported by more than 400 global organizations and will cost $56 billion over ten years. Gates says it was a "chance to save 14 million lives."

He launched the plan with British Chancellor Gordon Brown and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Brown had told parliament the U.K. would donate $75-million to battle tuberculosis in India. Brown says, "Every 15 seconds somebody dies of TB, avoidable and preventable." Luckily, Mr. Gates has decided to lend a helping hand, which could potentially save millions of people through out the world.