MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who became a billionaire following their divorce, announced Tuesday that he had donated nearly $ 1.7 billion to charity. "Like many, I witnessed the first half of 2020 with a mixture of heartbreak and horror," she said on the Medium platform.
"Life will never stop finding new ways to expose the inequalities of our systems", adds the one who had committed, after finalizing in July 2019 her divorce from the richest man in the world by touching 38 billion dollars, to donate half of his fortune.
A third of its donations to organizations working for racial equality
She explains that she has since made donations to more than a hundred organizations. "I made a contribution to each of them and invited them to spend it in whatever way they thought best to advance their cause," she wrote. "They all tackle without exception complex challenges which will require continuous efforts over many years," she adds.
A third of his donations ($ 586.7 million) were made to organizations working for racial equality, according to his post on Medium. The new multi-billionaire, a novelist, also said to have donated 399 million to charities in the field of economic mobility. The rest went to various causes relating to public health, gender equality, democracy and the fight against climate change.