My uncle Turk has taken to building schools in Kenya (http://nobelity.org/building-hope-2011/ http://nobelity.org/building-hope-2011/). The interesting things

My uncle Turk has taken to building schools in Kenya (http://nobelity.org/building-hope-2011/ http://nobelity.org/building-hope-2011/). The interesting things I have heard from that experience are that (1) raising money/awareness is incrediblely hard and time-consuming (2) western building methods don't work well in rural Kenya and (3) the locals are resourceful/hard-working in ways that put us startup founders to shame. I think Bill Gates is right about what matters because we have to get our population growth under control and the best way to that is insure that children survive and are healthy. Possible good outcomes open up when you don't have a desperate, damaged population living day-to-day. I do wish he would be a little more involved on the energy/climate change front. Population and Energy are going to be the defining issues of the next two hundred years.