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SUMMARY:CDH Talk: Humanitarian entrepreneurship
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DESCRIPTION:Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen\nOffering life-saving technology t
 o vulnerable people through a profitable business model\nAs part of the EP
 FL SHS course “Technology and social entrepreneurship”\, the College o
 f Humanities is happy to welcome Mr Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen who will p
 resent how his company offers life-saving technology to the most vulnerabl
 e people while operating as a profitable business. You will learn about th
 e numerous opportunities that exist for social entrepreneurs for “doing 
 good as good business” in humanitarian and development work.\nMikkel Ves
 tergaard Frandsen is the CEO and owner of Vestergaard\, a global company h
 e has structured around a humanitarian entrepreneurship business model. Ve
 stergaard\, headquartered in Lausanne\, is dedicated to improving the heal
 th of disadvantaged people with game-changing solutions that fight waterbo
 rne diseases\, malaria\, HIV/AIDS\, and neglected tropical diseases. The c
 ompany is the largest producer of long-lasting insecticidal bed nets that 
 prevent malaria\, and its award-winning LifeStraw® water filters have bee
 n designed for individual\, family and community uses.\nFor his significan
 t contributions to developing countries\, Mikkel has been honored by the E
 conomist with the Social and Economic Innovation Award and named by Succes
 s magazine as one of “9 Visionaries Shaping the Future.” The Luhya tri
 be of western Kenya made Mikkel an elder\, a rare\, important honor for fo
 reigners who have touched the lives of Kenyans in an extraordinary manner.
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