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"The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently awarded a $100,000 grant to True Energy, a Gwynedd, Wales-based refrigerator firm, to develop a portable cooler for the storage of vaccines in areas without reliable power.<br /><br />True Energy's Sure Chill fridge can stay at four degrees Celsius for more than 10 days without power. The refrigerators use an energy-storage material and are in widespread use in the developing world, particularly in Sierra Leone, Niger, South Sudan and Haiti, <a title=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk\" href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">BBC</a> reports.<br /><br />True Energy said it recently received $1 million worth of orders from UNICEF and other humanitarian agencies to use the refrigerators in health clinics in Ethiopia, Chad and Zimbabwe.<br /><br />\"In his recent BBC (Richard) Dimbleby lecture, Bill Gates described vaccines as a 'miracle tool', but stressed that there are still millions of children in the world who miss out,\" Keith Bartlett, the chief executive of True Energy, said, according to <a title=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk\" href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">BBC</a>. \"I am thrilled that the Sure Chill technology is playing a significant role in the global fight against disease and especially delighted that it has received recognition and support from this influential organization.\"<br /><br />The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given away close to $30 billion of the couple's fortune with tens of billions more in the pipeline.<br /><br />Gates spoke about his commitment to eliminating polio from the world during the annual BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture in January, <a title=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk\" href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">BBC</a> reports."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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