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1 The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, was founded by the was
2 former Microsoft CEO and his wife, is the largest private ✓
3 foundation in the world. The main aims are to improve the
4 health care and reduce poverty around the world. Almost since
5 its launch in 2000 the foundation has been the driving car
6 force behind the improvement of lives in developing countries.
7 Eradicating malaria and polio, and as well as controlling the
8 spread of tuberculosis and HIV, have been only top priorities.
9 In the past decades, vaccines that have been given to more than
10 250 million children, preventing them over 5 million deaths.
11 After a joint campaign with the Indian government, officials in
12 the second other most populous country in the world announced
13 that India was never completely free of polio.
14 In addition to working on global health problems then, Bill and
15 Melinda Gates have made climate change and clean energy
16 a personal mission. The organisation devotes out funds to
17 family planning, agriculture fields and safe sanitation. However,
18 it also focuses on problems at our home. About 25% of all the
19 money goes into improving the American education system.
20 About a thousand people around the world nearly work for
21 the Seattle-based foundation, which has had offices in Washington,
22 Delhi and Beijing. Unlike government bureaucracy, mostly
23 the organisation has the positive advantage of delivering relief
24 quickly, without annoying paperwork.

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1 The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, was founded by the was
2 former Microsoft CEO and his wife, is the largest private ✓
3 foundation in the world. The main aims are to improve the the
4 health care and reduce poverty around the world. Almost since almost
5 its launch in 2000 the foundation has been the driving car car
6 force behind the improvement of lives in developing countries. ✓
7 Eradicating malaria and polio, and as well as controlling the and
8 spread of tuberculosis and HIV, have been only top priorities. only
9 In the past decades, vaccines that have been given to more than that
10 250 million children, preventing them over 5 million deaths. them
11 After a joint campaign with the Indian government, officials in ✓
12 the second other most populous country in the world announced other
13 that India was never completely free of polio. never
14 In addition to working on global health problems then, Bill and then
15 Melinda Gates have made climate change and clean energy ✓
16 a personal mission. The organisation devotes out funds to out
17 family planning, agriculture fields and safe sanitation. However, fields
18 it also focuses on problems at our home. About 25% of all the our
19 money goes into improving the American education system. ✓
20 About a thousand people around the world nearly work for nearly
21 the Seattle-based foundation, which has had offices in Washington, had
22 Delhi and Beijing. Unlike government bureaucracy, mostly mostly
23 the organisation has the positive advantage of delivering relief positive
24 quickly, without annoying paperwork. ✓

www.english-practice.at