The entire World is now turning to the Ebola Menace with
positive response.
We are delighted that non Governmental organizations especially
in the United States
are showing a lot of concern as stated below.
In addition, Google chief executive and co-founder Larry
Page said his family’s foundation is contributing $15 million to the cause.
“Our hearts go out to everyone whose lives have been touched
by this tragedy,” Page said in a blog post announcing the campaign.
Google started collecting contributions at the website
onetoday.google.com/fightebola, where a message indicated that the two-for-one
dollar match would continue until $7.5 million more in donations were
collected.
Groups targeted by the California-based Internet titan to
receive support included InSTEDD, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Net Hope, and Save
the Children.
The campaign comes less than a month after Face book
co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife announced they were donating $25
million to help US efforts to contain the deadly Ebola epidemic.
“The Ebola epidemic is at a critical turning point… It is
spreading very quickly and projections suggest it could infect one million
people or more over the next several months if not addressed,” Zuckerberg said
on his Face book page.
“We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that
it doesn’t spread further and become a long-term global health crisis that we
end up fighting for decade’s at large scale, like HIV or polio.”
He said he and his wife Priscilla were donating the funds to the
US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Foundation.
“Grants like this
directly help the frontline responders in their heroic work,” Zuckerberg said.
“These people are on
the ground setting up care centers, training local staff, identifying Ebola
cases and much more.”
The Ebola virus has
already killed more than 4,800 people, most in the West African countries of Guinea , Liberia
and Sierra Leone
Under funded health
systems in the region have been crippled by the disease, which has spiraled out
of control and infected more than 13,000 people.
The Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation in September pledged $50 million to help boost the fight
against the Ebola outbreak, providing the funds to UN agencies and
international organizations involved in the outbreak.
We applaud these positive developments and will continue to
publicise these news at the risk of
repeatation.
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