Chitchat Philanthropist Bill Gates to donate 100,000 chicks to fight poverty

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Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, speaking in front of chickens pecking and clucking in a New York City skyscraper, announced plans on Wednesday to donate 100,000 chicks to poor nations in an effort to end extreme poverty.

Raising and selling chickens can lift families out of poverty, and a farmer breeding 250 chickens a year could make US$1,250 U.S., said the Foundation, which is partnering with the Heifer International.

Referring to the proverb that teaching a man to fish will feed him for a lifetime, he said: "The parable could have been stated in terms of giving somebody a chicken and showing them how to raise chickens."

Gates said he aimed to boost household chicken ownership in places such as West Africa, where it is now 5 percent, to 30 percent.

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