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hi everybody so my name is thomas so when member of this with with a partnership to or maybe suisse freshwater
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also you cannot make any mistake but our action takes
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place not really means we don't and so twenty four percent
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twenty four percent in sub saharan africa off uh only twenty
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four percent of the population has reliable access to safe drinking water
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uh this problem is not limited to rural areas that's frequently what people think
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but it's also very uh it persists in the fifties and very urban areas
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doc what or use a a often unavailable or unsafe
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uh and filtered water is also a not safe not always safe
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and uh uh raise a a big issue of single plastic use h.
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um squeeze fresh water source this issue in the next
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four years or we will provide safe and affordable whatever
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for one point five million beneficiaries and create at least four thousand shops
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we use a taunting model uh a franchise wattage ask
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that is both financially sustainable and scalable we train local entrepreneur wasn't
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kind of what opera knows i'm not the one you know a a
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that are developing a profitable an impact full business in the neighbourhood and community
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oh what a cask locally produce and sell water to the community at a price that is between
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three and ten times cheaper than any menial but
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all buttons sorry sold in three to five gallon bottles
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are sustainable business model has the potential to create tens
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of thousands of jobs and rich won several millions people
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things our founding in two thousand eight we've created that nearly one hundred fifty water casks
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and produced almost two hundred million a little of safe water
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we've created the yeah uh sorry yes
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our business model is that of the franchise first a franchise entry fee for a
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new what to just that is being produced then a fixed price in voiced the later
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to cover a to cover our assistance she
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rental fee maintenance and marketing and technical assistance
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in terms of market position in senegal we cover up the entire market
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but we focus more and more on your button and perry urban areas
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our uniqueness is that our price can vary depending on populations purchasing power
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this makes us unique and the best value for money service in the markets
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our model has proven in parts in terms of how else it
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has also significant impact in terms of economic social and environmental uh areas
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to do that we need to build a strong team
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we we are for people in sweden on may need to manufacture the water treatment equipment for our andy
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supply chain management and very soon fundraising that's what we need a very strongly in the near future
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we also got a subsidiary in senegal with twenty two a person's a great
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team half of it uh is less than one year or in the to
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we also backed by a strong governments with the board of directors and also external adviser
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we've been supported from the very beginning of the project by private investors who
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believed in the mission and also one impact and which is a feet first
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the swiss corporation also a strongly supported the project initial times
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right p. h. a sick who uh especially three's good egregious d. c.
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more recently we concluded very important uh partnerships through code
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investment grounds with us say that and you need to
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in order to reach those targets both financially and from an
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impact point of view we need approximately four million swiss francs
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half of it we're looking for it through equity and we're looking for a lead investor
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half of the truth philanthropy i zero to see us
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or uh uh uh for us with private companies or co
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investment in grounds with foundations or bilateral is a little bit
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in the same view of what we did with us either