The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was established in the year 1999 when Bill Gates combined three charitable family foundations. Today, it is the largest private foundation worldwide, and “the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world” (Bates, 2010). The foundation is worth an estimated $40 billion, which makes it the richest charitable trust in the world. The foundation follows a guiding principle “…that every life has equal value”, and, therefore, focuses its worldwide efforts on helping people (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2016).
The Gates foundation focuses its efforts in four key areas. First, the Global Development Division aims to uplift individuals worldwide out of poverty and hunger through grants …show more content…
One of those companies is Monsanto, an agricultural biotech company, and a leading provider of genetically modified organisms (GMO) seeds, including corn, cotton, soy, fruits, and vegetables. Monsanto provides seeds to farmers worldwide that promises disease resistant crops with higher yields (Monsanto, 2015).
The global impact of Monsanto was widely publicized on May 24th, 2015, when thousands of people across 400 cities worldwide protested the company. Their gripe was with Monsanto’s genetically modified crops and the company’s near monopoly over the food supply. Protestors accused the company of selling lethal chemicals, polluting the water supplies, and for damaging the natural environment. Farmers also accused the company for having a monopoly over the world seed market, which is putting many small farmers out of business (RT, 2015).
One of the greatest contributions of the Gates Foundation relates to education, and especially the education of Latino transnationals with English as a second language. The foundation looks at early childhood development to ensure that pre-school programs are available for the children of working transnationals. It also supports transitions between pre-school, elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. The organization, therefore, helps transnationals to assimilate in their new country. …show more content…
They influence governments and drive for greater responsibility towards social, economic, environmental, health, and educational issues, among other. NGO’s also step in after natural disasters, like the Haiti earthquake disaster and the Indonesian tsunami of 2004, to provide emergency and humanitarian relief. Furthermore, environmental NGO’s, including Greenpeace, the World Wide Fund for Nature, and Friends of Earth, were key to the enactment of the Kyoto Protocol by the United Nations in 1997. The goal of the treaty was to limit the emission of greenhouse gasses by developed nations (Kim,
The Gates foundation focuses its efforts in four key areas. First, the Global Development Division aims to uplift individuals worldwide out of poverty and hunger through grants …show more content…
One of those companies is Monsanto, an agricultural biotech company, and a leading provider of genetically modified organisms (GMO) seeds, including corn, cotton, soy, fruits, and vegetables. Monsanto provides seeds to farmers worldwide that promises disease resistant crops with higher yields (Monsanto, 2015).
The global impact of Monsanto was widely publicized on May 24th, 2015, when thousands of people across 400 cities worldwide protested the company. Their gripe was with Monsanto’s genetically modified crops and the company’s near monopoly over the food supply. Protestors accused the company of selling lethal chemicals, polluting the water supplies, and for damaging the natural environment. Farmers also accused the company for having a monopoly over the world seed market, which is putting many small farmers out of business (RT, 2015).
One of the greatest contributions of the Gates Foundation relates to education, and especially the education of Latino transnationals with English as a second language. The foundation looks at early childhood development to ensure that pre-school programs are available for the children of working transnationals. It also supports transitions between pre-school, elementary school, middle school, high school, and college. The organization, therefore, helps transnationals to assimilate in their new country. …show more content…
They influence governments and drive for greater responsibility towards social, economic, environmental, health, and educational issues, among other. NGO’s also step in after natural disasters, like the Haiti earthquake disaster and the Indonesian tsunami of 2004, to provide emergency and humanitarian relief. Furthermore, environmental NGO’s, including Greenpeace, the World Wide Fund for Nature, and Friends of Earth, were key to the enactment of the Kyoto Protocol by the United Nations in 1997. The goal of the treaty was to limit the emission of greenhouse gasses by developed nations (Kim,