Zuckerberg and wife give $25 million to fight ebola
By Noel Young
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are donating $25 million to the nonprofit arm of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control to help fight Ebola.
The news came in an e-mailed statement from the CDC Foundation.
The grant from Zuckerberg and Chan’s donor-adviser fund at Silicon Valley Community Foundation is for the CDC’s Ebola response in the three West African countries most affected — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — said Bloomberg and “anywhere in the world where Ebola poses a threat to health.”
“We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that Read full story ›
Source: The Drum




