:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/elfinanciero/LDFTQE7I5BEHDMUNTISKC3WPK4.jpg "This is how Bill Gates remains optimistic in the fight against extreme poverty in Africa – El Financiero")
If everything seemed to be worse than inside 2020when we were at home avoiding being infected covid, 2022 has become darker with the rise in prices and inflation that does not seem to stop and this seems to resonate more in those who live in Extreme poverty.
However, Bill Gates maintains an upbeat and upbeat outlook for years has invested millions of dollars in fighting poverty around the world.
“If we continue to adequately finance development aid, we will go back to where we were before the pandemic in a couple of years and build from there. But at best it can be said to have been a setback of three or four years. In some areas, even worse, ” he said Gates in an exclusive interview with The Guardian in view of the annual publication of the Goalkeeper Report, the foundation he chairs.
But maintaining cash flow is criticaland Gates fears that generosity towards Africa’s needs may be affected by the “cost and distraction” of the Ukrainian war. Another distraction during the COVID pandemic was that Gates, 66, became the target conspiracy theorists.
“There have been a few cases where I have come across people in public yelling at me that I was chipping people and it’s a bit strange to see: Wow, those people really exist, they’re not just robots sending crazy messages, ” the American confessed.
In July, billionaire Microsoft and his ex-wife Melinda French Gates announced they would invest an additional $ 20 billion in the charitable foundation to continue to co-chair after the divorce.
The foundation has changed emphasis on agriculture in recent years, which has sparked criticism and controversy. Some African voices have expressed concern over the lack of space at the table for discussions, while smallholder farmers fear their environmental concerns will be overlooked in the push for large, science-driven agricultural and business interventions.
Gates has what has been described as an “evangelical” attitude towards gene editing technology. “Africa needs to feed its rural populations, it needs to feed its urban populations and when there is a shortage of foodit is not only malnutrition and potential hunger that are bad, they are also there incredible instability and this fuels the inability to build infrastructure or manage their own education system.
“So for Africa, especially in the area we call the Sahel, it’s a terrible situation and the only compromise is that we could, if we intend to, make Africa self-sufficient in 15 years,” he said. The Guardian.
As the myriad of problems facing the world get bigger and bigger, makes it harder to decide where to spend your budgets best.
“Overall, it’s a very challenging situation. It is literally millions of lives and the very stability of these African governments that, when things go well, can lift their country out of poverty and become self-reliant. Overall, the help was very, very effective.
“In the face of all these sad developments,” he said, “The need to invest, to get better tools, to get back on track is very important. AWe will achieve the goals. It’s just a question of when, ”Gates concluded.
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