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Managing Organization:
Vestergaard Frandsen Group
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Contact Name:
USA: Thomas Damsbo Soerensen ; Switzerland (head office): Michael Bjørnlund - Kenya: Nancy Atieno Ogada
Contact Phone:
USA: 1 703 684 3138 ; Switzerland: +41 (0) 21 310 7333 ; Kenya: +254 20 4444 758/9
Contact Address:
USA:
Vestergaard Frandsen Inc.
1940 Duke Street, Suite 200,
Alexandria, VA 22314,
Switzerland (head office)
Vestergaard Frandsen S.A.
Chemin de Messidor 5 – 7,
CH – 1006 Lausanne
East Africa office:
Vestergaard Frandsen (EA) Ltd.
Waiyaki Way, ABC Place, PO Box 66889 - 00800,
Nairobi,
Kenya
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Activity Description:
The Vestergaard-Frandsen group designs disease control textiles and distributes them profitably on a mass scale.
Three of the Vestegaard products are: PermaNet, an insecticide-treated anti-malarial net that kills mosquitos upon impact; The LifeStraw, a drinking straw with seven types of filters, that purifies up to 185 gallons of water; and ZeroFly, an insecticide incorporated plastic sheeting that provides shelter and malaria prevention.
Vestergaard-Frandsen has three models for selling the bed-nets: through direct donations from aid agencies, “social marketing”, in which a company teams up with an aid organisation to market a product and the recipients pay only part of the cost, and direct marketing (when income in a country is sufficiently high).
Vestergaard-Frandsen products have been endorsed by the World Health Organization.
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