A 25-year-old Reddit user named Cali was one of more than 212,000 people who participated this year in Reddit’s Secret Santa gift exchange. But she’s the only one who got Bill Gates as her Secret Santa.
For the second year in a row, the Microsoft co-founder participated in the annual Reddit Gifts exchange, sending Cali a Loki helmet that was the “pie in the sky wish” in her Reddit questionnaire; along with a coffee table book about Africa, where she hopes to visit someday.
“Melinda and I have been to Africa many times and loved it,” he wrote in the inscription. “I hope you get a chance to visit and check that off your bucket list! Merry Christmas, Bill Gates.”
Gates also made a donation in Cali’s name to Shot@Life, which provides vaccines to kids in developing nations. (This also explains the polio virus stuffed animal that he sent.)
Cali, as you might imagine, was pretty ecstatic about all of this. Here’s what she wrote on Reddit.
I can not believe it. I am literally shaking right now I AM IN SHOCK (someone get me a blanket!).
The amazing human being Bill Gates sent me a Loki Helmet which i have been dying to own ever since the first Thor movie came out!! He read my “pie in the sky wish” that i filled out in my questionnaire and fulfilled it! I also got an amazing coffee table book of gorgeous pictures of Africa (somewhere i desperately want to go, its on my bucket list!) with an inscription and a Giant microbes polio virus stuffed animal!
The Helmet actually arrived with the horns cracked :( but i’m pretty sure i can find a way to fix it! :D
The most important part is, He also made a donation in my name to Shot@Life a great program that provides vaccines for kids in poor countries which is SO amazing and i can’t even begin to describe how incredible it makes me feel knowing that he made this donation in my name! I always donate what i can for charities, which is never much cause money is always extremely tight, it really makes me glow!
Gates included a picture of himself with the card for Cali, to prove it was him.
Also check out the gifts that Gates sent to another Reddit user last year.
