Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to donate $100m to tackle Ebola

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, 61, who is worth
about $17billion, announced today October 23rd that
he will donate $100 million to the fight against Ebola,
which has killed thousands of people all around the
world. This donation makes him the largest individual
donor in the Ebola crisis so far.

“Everybody feels called sometimes to really
pursue a certain thing that resonates with them,
and this has resonated with me. We’re up against
an extremely tough opponent here. The
exponential nature of the growth of this disease is
really a challenge – we’ve already seen in the U.S.

where one case quickly became two.” Allen told