Paul Allen’s gift is believed to be the largest private donation to combat the deadly disease and provide support to health care workers in West Africa.
Paul Allen’s gift is believed to be the largest private donation to combat the deadly disease and provide support to health care workers in West Africa.
The gift from the co-founder of Microsoft includes an estimated $26.5 million already donated to organizations such as the American Red Cross, to pay for equipment, volunteers and educational materials, and the Centers for Disease Control Foundation, to establish emergency operations centers in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the nations at the epicenter of the epidemic.
“Ebola is not somebody else’s problem. It is ours,” Allen said in a statement posted to his website. “The entire global community needs to step up now with resources that match the speed and scale of this growing outbreak.”
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