‘60 Minutes Overtime’ Focuses On The Gates Foundation

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LOS ANGELES (GaeaTimes.com)- CBS correspondent Scott Pelley interviewed Bill and Melinda Gates in the latest ‘60 Minutes Overtime‘ show. With an aim to get an insight into the shy couple’s life as humanitarians, Scott Pelley visited the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Washington and then traveled with Melinda Gates to India.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been running for 10 years now and the couple has chosen to avoid much publicity of their humanitarian efforts. The ‘60 Minutes Overtime‘ correspondent, however, traveled across the globe to the poverty and disease stricken country side of rural India. Melinda Gates said that such were the areas that she and her husband wanted to work in. She explained that these were neglected areas and their funds could help save maximum lives in such places. Problems like lack of electricity, infant mortality and other health issues were prevalent in the area and the superstitions of the people also made them shun medicines.

The official web page of ‘60 Minutes Overtime‘ says that it took one year to convince the media shy Melinda Gates to allow a correspondent come along with her on the India trip. She said on the show that she comes often to the country to understand the problems and needs of the people working here. She explained that the main focus of the foundation at this point was to reduce the number of child deaths in the area. She said that more than 9 million children, below the age of 5, die every year and she believes that the figure could be reduced much further. Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder was recently in the news for topping the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans for the 17th straight time.