Zuckerberg, wife donate US$25m to CDC for Ebola
NEW YORK — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Ms Priscilla Chan, are donating US$25 million (S$32 million) to the CDC Foundation to help address the Ebola epidemic.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a speech during a application developer workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia, Oct 13, 2014. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have both donated US$25 million to CDC Foundation for funding of Ebola. Photo: AP
NEW YORK — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Ms Priscilla Chan, are donating US$25 million (S$32 million) to the CDC Foundation to help address the Ebola epidemic.
The money will be used by the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s Ebola response effort in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and elsewhere in the world where Ebola is a threat, the foundation said today (Oct 14).
The grant follows a US$9 million donation made by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen last month. Mr Zuckerberg and Ms Chan are making the grant from their fund at the nonprofit Silicon Valley Community Foundation. AP
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