To: jeev a ca tion@g ma i I .com[jeevaca tion@g mail.com] From: Sent: Tue 6/21/2011 6:32:35 AM Subject: Re: Sorry it's taken a while to get back online. Sometimes tough out here in Africa. Well I can certainly sympathisize with that sentiment and I hate the thought of any of our foundation work being anything but demand driven. So hopefully your friend(s) would be willing to take the time to discuss their wants/concerns etc with me so that we can put that whole thing to rest - I am happy to hear any and all ideas. Unfortunately, sometimes I can't find a fit for ideas since we do have strategic constraints laid out by Bill. I think Bill would be sad to hear that anyone thought he was a colonialist! There are some things that I am not sure you are aware of, and I only note them as a caution in interpreting statements by the son of the president. First. the son of the president hates the mayor of dakar and has tried multiple times to push him out or at least really shred his reputation. Your friend ran for mayorial office against him and lost in a landslide election. Big time. The current mayor is the only elected opposition leader in the whole country and there are serious rumblings from the streets that your friend and his father are the next African government to be toppled. Folks think it is the mayo r of Dakar that is fomenting this. So anything viewed as successful in Dakar is typically quashed or at least threatened. Finding a balance between doing what is right by the people and avoiding politics is challenging. I think your friend may also be speaking out of both sides of his mouth also since he has accepted and welcomed nearly $50 million in foundation dollars so far - one to deal with urban health and one upcoming to deal with sanitation/water. The foundation has rallied other donors around these two issues so you can imagine that the numbers skyrocket. It sounds like from our brief conversation last week, that he really wants an aca