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Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates has said she will resign as a co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

"This is not a decision I came to lightly," Ms Gates wrote in a statement posted to social media on Monday.

Her last day of work will be 7 June.

Ms Gates founded the foundation - the largest private body of its kind - in 2000 with her then-husband Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder.

In 2021, after 27 years of marriage, the pair announced their separation, but pledged to carry on with their t philanthropic work. At the time of their split, the former couple said they would remain as co-chairs and trustees of the organisation and that no changes to the foundation's structure were expected.

The Gates Foundation is among the most powerful groups in public health, with an endowment of more than $75bn (£59.7bn) as of December. It spends billions of dollars every year on initiatives aimed at eradicating infectious diseases, reducing poverty and combatting climate change.

According to the foundation's website, the couple donated more than $36bn (£28bn) of their own wealth to it from 1994 to 2018.

"I am immensely proud of the foundation that Bill and I built together," Ms Gates wrote in her statement adding that under an agreement with Mr Gates, she will now have an additional $12.5bn for her own charitable work on women and families.

In 2015, Ms Gates founded investment company Pivotal Ventures, a separate entity from the Gates Foundation, which focuses on removing barriers to opportunity for women and minority groups.

"This is a critical moment for women and girls in the US and around the world - and those fighting to protect and advance equality are in urgent need of ," she wrote in Monday's statement.

Mr Gates said he was "sorry to see Melinda leave, but I am sure she will have a huge impact in her future philanthropic work".

The Microsoft founder remains one of the world's richest men, with a net worth of more than $130.3bn, according to Forbes. Ms Gates' fortune is listed at $11.3bn.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-69005778.amp

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I saw the post on LinkedIn, I’m trying to marry how two people that cuddled and ljj ok bed each other so much at a certain point in time now communicate like they’re in a controlled environment.

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The richest men in the world today got rich through hardwork, dedication, sacrifice etc.

While the richest women got theirs through divorce, alimony payment, inheritance, child (all came from Men).

There's a lesson there for men. If you like loose guard your money in the name of 🤡 🤡 lOvE 🤡 🤡

Money rules the world so you MUST protect your money with your life. Sign that Pre-nups today.

The future is really female 😁😁😁

Long in coming..she's said this since.

Bill should employ another lady with the name Melinda as co-chair
#OnALighterNote

Divorce loading ….

Why quoting me !! All I read from this article was they are separated I don’t know they divorced already

Btw Sey na bill gate matter i go put for this my multimillion $$$ /naira head ….

THE GATES FOUNDATION IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GRAVELY DANGEROUS GMO AGENDA

This is a modification of the natural way seed grows. There is suspicion that the fulani activities which constitute the heavy destruction of farmlands all over nigeria (from north to south) is tied to this agenda. The middle belt of nigeria which is very agrarian and houses some of the best soils and weather has seen a deliberate and well-calculated massacre and forceful eviction of their farms, as well as the burning of crops and seeds.

To the idiotic fulani terrorists, they are carrying out jihad but to these white eugenics fanatics (who won't let this world rest and follow its natural order), they are trying to roundly enslave us by what we eat. This is pure economic and food enslavement. What is happening in nigeria is not ordinary.

You guys that are studying agriculture engineering and agric science in tertiary institutions, what are your brains for? I have not even seen one single intelligent thread connecting the dots of the terrorist invasion vis-a-vis the destruction of farms and the elimination of the owners.

This is a very evil agenda and we all must be alive to this threat. When they have achieved what they want, the next phase is for them to come through disguised NGO's that will pretend to bring respite by giving (even selling) their own modified seeds (GMOs) which will deliberately have no longevity. In other words, they would hardly last if stored till the next season. So this way, we become enslaved to the west and they would keep selling their own kind of seeds to us while we would have lost our natural seedlings forever. Let me not even conjecture what the effects would be if we consume (heaven forbid) the produce of these seedlings.

This is NOT a joke! We are talking 21st century slavery here. No jokes! Open your eyes, o ye black folks.

I know some of them will come here and be quoting rubbish. I pity una next generation.

What will make a couple divorce after 27 years of marriage?

Spoil A Woman Because She Loves You,
Don’t Spoil Her Because You Loves Her.

Ehen?
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Problems money can’t solve actually dey. No be lie!

ovieigho:
Divorce loading ….

They got divorced in 2021

She now has a soul?

Ok, noted.

One of the richest woman alive with $11.2B

Make she just look me like dis and dash me $2m for nothing! make I dey use dat 1 cee front for the rest of dis year

It didn't make sense for her to continue being a member after her divorce. I guess she was constantly being emotionally tempted to go back to Bill Gates and couldn't take it any longer.

Key point is the "additional 12.5 billion dollars she's getting for her own charity".

The kind of woman I will love to marry, she is very intelligent and know exactly what she wanted in life

J

Our pastors should be teaching the west what marriage is because they have gone astray

Noted.

ovieigho:
Divorce loading ….

did you even read the post It say they are already separated since 2021

Omo... If you're a follower of dis gates family, you'll know this Foundation means alot to them, na only God know why dem divorce after so many years together.... Na dem know jare, wealthy people and their wahala

Some women dey lucky for dis life oh... Ask dis woman now how she got her billions, it's from marrying and divorcing bill Gates

Things fall apart!

She's done with their satanic illuminati empire

I'm sure his DM will be filled with women submitting their CV

bluefilm:
She's done with their satanic illuminati empire

A lot of Nigerian women will not care, as long as he has money so that they can be posing like Regina Daniels

To found her own. Money dey nau. After all she shared her her ex husband properties equal

She don cashout tire her nah why she no go step dowe!..

You ignorantly think she had nothing to do with building the Gates’ wealth?

Your compulsive and intentional lack of respect for women will have y’all constantly talking out of your behinds like people without an ounce of critical thinking

WritterNg:
The richest men in the world today got rich through hardwork, dedication, sacrifice etc.

While the richest women got theirs through divorce, alimony payment, inheritance, child (all came from Men).

There's a lesson there for men. If you like loose guard your money in the name of 🤡 🤡 lOvE 🤡 🤡

Money rules the world so you MUST protect your money with your life. Sign that Pre-nups today.