The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donates $1.5 billion to help women and children

The world’s richest person and chairman of giant software company Microsoft, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, who are also well known with their super-duper charity The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, agreed to donate $1.5 billion to the United Nations to improve the health and care of women and children in the planet.  The super-rich foundation has previously donated billion of dollars to improve and distribute vaccines, diarrhea, and malaria around the world.  As reuters.com wrote, the latest gift will be used to “help women deliver babies safely and plan healthy families with access to contraception, while incorporating current vaccination and nutrition programs.”