The European Commission appealed to the charitable organizations for help in the digitization of European cultural heritage. The total price of conversion into electronic format collections of libraries, museums and national archives will cost around € 100 billion because of the economic crisis of the initiators of the project are recognized - the authorities of the EU itself did not fund the. All hope for a non-governmental organizations, charitable foundations and the generous contributions of all who care.
However, this is not the first time that government institutions can not cope with existing problems. For example, to fight malaria in Africa last year, according to experts, required more than $ 6 billion, while the "found" only $ 1.5 billion because assistance from nongovernmental organizations and business philanthropists is simply necessary. American billionaire Warren Buffett and Bill Gates has been calling like half of the richest people in the world to share resources for the benefit of mankind. After a lot of money - it's also a big responsibility.
Only in the U.S. is now more than 400 billionaires. 40 of them have already signed on to a charitable initiative of Giving Pledge, organized by Buffett and Gates. The rich are not required to enter into any contract or transfer to anyone else's account money. The campaign being offered only to take a moral obligation to give half of his savings to charity. In this case, Buffett is very optimistic: "I'm in the safe there are a few of the securities purchased about 40-45 years ago. Now their value increased tenfold. If these pieces of paper to invest either in the fight against childhood diseases, or in improving the education system and people will live better - it will be amazing. I think many people think in the same spirit. " Billionaire in 2006 stated that 99%of their capital (and it's $ 47 billion) will give to charity, mostly - the Gates Foundation. The latter spends more than $ 2 billion on programs to improve health care and social development. Overall, among those who supported the initiative, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, media mogul Ted Turner, founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, filmmaker George Lucas, David Rockefeller and others. The founder of online auction eBay, Pierre Omidyar, for example, explained that he decided to do charity work, seeing themselves in the Forbes rating and realizing that he has no idea how to proceed with its own state.
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