Inside Melinda French Gates’ $1 billion 'incredible experiment'

Sabrina Habib was at the Heathrow Airport just outside London when she got the email.

After a nine-hour flight from Nairobi, Habib held her toddler while staring at her phone. She had received a message from Melinda French Gates, who asked if Habib — the co-founder of Kenya’s largest childcare network, Kidogo — would like $20 million to disburse to other organizations across the world.

“I was trying to read the email, process it, and juggle my daughter at the same time,” Habib told Devex. “She was like: Mummy, mummy, mummy! And I was like: Just one second, just one second!”

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