GATES FOUNDATION GIVE ADDITIONAL $255 MILLION
TO ROTARY FOR FIGHT AGAINST POLIO

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are giving a further $255 million to Rotary to help with its project to eradicate Polio from the world.  This is in addition to the $100 million given last year.  In this grant $100 million must be matched by Rotary by 2012, in addition to the $100 million already required to be matched by the previous grant.

The announcement was made by Bill Gates himself at the Rotary International Assembly in California on 21/1/2009.  See the whole speech in the screen below.