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"We knew it [Williams' gift] couldn't be formally announced until we could have this meeting and he could gather some final thoughts about it," Gold explained. "He shared his vision with them at the beginning of the day, and then we set up an agenda to allow people to talk about all the options for what might be done in a center like this in both Prince George's County and Freetown."
In Prince George's County, the Washington suburb in which Williams was reared, is the second-highest rate of AIDS in Maryland. In Sierra Leone, 27 of every 100 children die by age 5. Those are human statistics Williams told Gold he hopes to change.
A day after the meeting, Williams made his wish a reality. In doing so, he became the youngest donor of so much money to Maryland and the largest black donor to the university.
There is saying in the neighborhood that goes, "Don't talk about it; be about it." Madieu Williams is its marvelous personification.
