President Ruto on Wednesday hosted American businessman Bill Gates at State House, Nairobi, where they discussed various issues including healthcare and agriculture.
Ruto commended the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for its support of Kenya in various areas such as healthcare, agriculture, and ICT.
“We appreciate the support the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation continues to extend to Kenya in realizing our development goals, especially in the areas of healthcare, agriculture and ICT sectors,” Ruto said in a brief following the meeting.
“We will continue to collaborate towards the realization of food security and universal health coverage in our country.”
The philanthropist arrived in Kenya on Tuesday to visit national and local leaders, partners, and grantees; meet with regional scientists and innovators; and announce the foundation’s commitment to supporting new innovations and ingenuity aimed at improving health, food security, and gender equality in African countries.
Gates and other foundation leaders are also in the country to visit and learn from farmers who are using digital tools to help with climate adaptation, see how primary health care clinics have delivered care during the pandemic and helped address ongoing threats like HIV, TB, and malaria, and learn more about how leaders are charting a path forward despite the challenging economic conditions, with investments in youth, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
On Thursday, Gates will participate in a conversation with university students to learn and share perspectives on how innovative tools and approaches can bolster efforts to increase food security and support climate adaptation across Africa. The moderated town hall event dubbed Innovating for Food Security & Climate Change in Africa will be co-hosted by Africa.com and the University of Nairobi.
In Kenya, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supports tools and technologies in agriculture, health, immunization, nutrition, sanitation, financial services, gender equality and more.
The foundation’s partners in Kenya include Maisha Meds, which uses technology to improve patient access to quality and affordable care, Kidogo, which offers childcare for Nairobi’s low-income families, and KALRO, which helps farmers with climate adaptation.
Thank you Mr. Bill Gates for…
Thank you Mr. Bill Gates for utilizing your immense wealth to alleviate misery through out the world, as well as helping the world work seamlessly and collaboratively with your superb portfolio of software! One of a kind!
This guy is not as cool as…
This guy is not as cool as people think
For so many years these rich…
For so many years these rich AngloSax have been out there “helping” us in agriculture and health care; but these are among areas that we require self-determination. Using food and health care, you can wipe out a people. First question ought to be, what does this man want from us? There are no free stuff from anyone!
@mwororo, tell us one thing…
@mwororo, tell us one thing you have done for humanity, besides fackin around! Gates has committed to give away his billions to humanity before he dies! He is running against time trying to look for “not morons” but honest channels to meet his objectives!
@juju, Bill Gate has nothing…
@juju, Bill Gate has nothing to offer you but pain and misery! Read about AGRA; Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa-(AGRA) funds research to develop genetically modified crops, fertilizers etc,.(an international nonprofit launched by the Bill and Melinda Gates & Rockefeller foundation in 2006). Read about seed privatisation, seed as corporate- intellectual property. It will be a crime for African farmers to store, give away or exchange seeds. You must buy new seeds every planting cycle! In Honduras, their supreme court, had to strike down as unconstitutional, a Monsanto law that made it illegal to save, give away or exchange seeds. Bill Gates owns most of Monsanto- ref:GRAIN. Indian farmers accepted the Green Revolution: GMO seeds destroyed their soil, lost ground water, farmers lost everything -17,000 farmers committed suicide every yr.Read MoveOn.org You can insult me- call me names, but am not your enemy. All you can see in Bill Gates is a generous man who cannot wait to give you free stuff to safe your life. I see a ruthless business man who will stop at nothing to own the world- even if that means death and misery to a lot of Africans. There is not a single civilization that became great and powerful out of handouts. We got to do it ourselves!
There are a lot of problems…
There are a lot of problems and issues in America since covid. Homelessness, people who cannot afford Healthcare, blacks who cannot afford education.
Why can’t this man start with his home.
Charity begins at home. Why come to Kenya? Time to ask questions.
Is it the Same policy of ” By Creating dependency, you create power and need for yourself”
Africa does not need any more help.
Or the help we will get will be to control our population.
Sometimes there is nothing as bad as good intentions.
Please Mr. Gates: Stay away from Kenya and Aftica.
No more help!!
@ Anonymous, I dont know…
@ Anonymous, I dont know where you live,but If you happen to live in USA, you cannot deny the fact that the standard of living for the so called poor people is much better than that of a poor person in africa/Kenya.
Yes it pays to question intentions,but I read no malice in Billy’s generosity.It’s purely driven by his desire to see a better world,and he is playing his part toward that end by spreading his wealth.
He is helping where our governments have failed,or doing apoor job.I am sure if he were to give each Kenya a stimulus check of $500,you would not argue against it…But you seem to have an issue when he money goes into institutions that alleviate the standard of living for the masses.What say you?