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Video: FC Barcelona and Gates Foundation Team Up to Improve the Lives of Children Around the World

February 26, 2013 / Gates Foundation

Last week we launched a video with FC Barcelona, and the FCB Foundation featuring FC Barcelona President Sandro Rosell and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair Bill Gates. In the video, Gates and Rosell talk about the shared set of values – commitment to society, helping children around the world and global responsibility - that form the basis for the partnership the two organizations formed in July 2011.

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Photo of the Day: More Than a Goal. End Polio.

August 02, 2012 / Gates Foundation

Photo of the Day for Thursday, August 2, 2012.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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