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I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world.

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.

Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.

We created the Cabinet Committee on the Environment to review the environmental implications of all government initiatives. I think what made us successful was the fact that it was a sustained approach. We did something new every year.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

I am on the board of corporations who contribute both to environmental problems and their solutions. And I am on the NGO side: the Earth Council and other organizations.

I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.

My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.