Dr. Rebecca Jerop revives ancient grains like finger millet to help farmers adapt to climate change and improve nutrition and ...

This article was originally published on Gates Notes. When I first began thinking about how to give away my wealth, I did what I always do when I start a new project: I read a lot of books. I read ...

On foundation’s 25th anniversary, Bill Gates outlines ambitious goals, inspiration for donating most of his resources and new timeline to spend-down by 2045 “There are too many urgent problems to ...

Whether we’re paying the rent, receiving a paycheck, splitting the cost of a meal, or simply buying a coffee, people in much of the world take digital banking for granted. Everything is handled with a ...

Millions of women around the world have a story like Morzina Begum’s, especially if they live in a low- or middle-income country. They have little or no access to financial tools and services, which ...

NEW YORK (September 23, 2024) – At its event, Goalkeepers 2024: Recipe for Progress, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation honored remarkable leaders who are advancing the United Nations Sustainable ...

I remember the day I first experienced artificial intelligence (AI) in education. It was the late ’90s, and I was a maths teacher at a school in London described as having “challenging circumstances.” ...

Long before she devoted her life to studying mosquitoes, Corine Ngufor knew their scourge. Growing up in Cameroon, “I was condemned to suffer from malaria,” she says. “My siblings and I would just ...

Like Veronica, the working mother in the video below, access to quality and affordable childcare is very important to me. It enables me to focus on my job knowing that my child is safe. This is not ...

When I was a pediatrician in Pakistan, I worked for many years in a community on the outskirts of Karachi called Rehri Goth. It was a poor village best known for fishing. But I knew it as a place ...

In her small village in rural Kenya, Josephine Kimonyi is known for making bold moves. In 2014, she and her husband Samuel left a vibrant life in Nairobi to return to Ngumu in southeast Kenya, where ...

Last year, a man named Chuck Feeney died, at the age of 92. Feeney was a billionaire, but you might not have heard of him. He purposely led a low-profile life—he wore a ten-dollar watch and, in his ...