I recommend that you watch at least the first 8 minutes of this video in which Bill Gates speaks about how his foundation is helping to fight malaria and why that is so important. He manages to get across a very serious message in a fun way. He says:
As recently as 1960, 110 million children were born, and 20 million of those died before the age of five. Five years ago, 135 million children were born — so, more — and less than 10 million of them died before the age of five. So that’s a factor of two reduction of the childhood death rate. It’s a phenomenal thing. Each one of those lives matters a lot.
I am one of those 110m, still here…
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