Microsoft co-founder and world's second-richest man, Bill Gates has revealed what he wants for Christmas.
In a Reddit thread earlier this year, Gates revealed two requests for his Secret Santa: A contribution to Rotary, a service organization that provides humanitarian services, to help end polio as well as any book recommendations that the person has read and found particularly interesting.
Gates has been a longtime advocate for the eradication of polio. In the same thread, he admits that this is one of his biggest focuses right now.
In 2007, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation joined other major health organizations to prioritize ending this disease by 2020. So far, the foundation has contributed nearly $3 billion toward eradicating polio.
In the foundation's 2017 annual shareholder letter, Gates says that the progress in fighting polio might be one of the world's best-kept secrets. "If things stay stable in the conflicted areas," he adds, "humanity will see it's last case of polio this year."
The self-made billionaire is also an avid reader and once admitted that he consumes about 50 books a year.
"Reading is my favorite way to indulge my curiosity," he writes on his blog. "Although I'm lucky that I get to meet with a lot of interesting people and visit fascinating places through my work, I still think books are the best way to explore new topics that interest you."
