This is a typical caricature of celebrity charity. They don’t even pretend to be helping people. All their money goes to lobbying politicians to spend other people’s money and “raising awareness” rather than actually helping the poor and starving on the ground.
I’m sure it buys a lot of ad time, subway posters, plane tickets, limos and catering. I doubt if “The Statesman” and Lord Protector of Africa—Bono even knows or cares what this outfit does on a day-to-day basis. I’m betting that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has become a standard unsupervised monster charity that that has been taken over by careerist staffers and is run for their benefit, while accomplishing very little of substance.
It could be worse - it could be like the Ford Foundation and support all kinds of idiot liberal causes (diametrically opposed to the ideas Ford himself supported, btw).
It’s about social climbing their way into diplomacy. Not about helping, but about getting into politics via ‘humanitatianism.’ It worked for Eva Peron, so I suppose they think it should work for them.