LA PAZ: Bolivia’s government turned up its nose at US billionaire Bill Gates’s initiative to donate 100,000 chickens to people living in poverty worldwide, including Bolivians.
“I find it rude, because unfortunately some people, especially in the empire (the United States), still see us as beggars.
“We don’t depend on chickens. We’ve advanced,” said Rural Development Minister Cesar Cocarico.
“Our people have dignity and they know how to work,” he told journalists.
Gates, the man ranked by Forbes magazine as the richest person in the world, announced plans last week to donate chickens to poor nations in an effort to fight extreme poverty.
“I find it rude, because unfortunately some people, especially in the empire (the United States), still see us as beggars.
“We don’t depend on chickens. We’ve advanced,” said Rural Development Minister Cesar Cocarico.
“Our people have dignity and they know how to work,” he told journalists.
Gates, the man ranked by Forbes magazine as the richest person in the world, announced plans last week to donate chickens to poor nations in an effort to fight extreme poverty.
