Vestergaard Frandsen’s LifeStraw Brings Clean Water to Kenyan Children

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Vestergaard (established as Vestergaard Frandsen) is a Swiss company focused on health solutions that help the world’s most vulnerable people achieve comfort and security in their lives. One major Vestergaard Frandsen initiative has been an effort to ensure that one million children in Kenya have access to clean water. 

To accomplish this, the firm has been utilizing its innovative LifeStraw technology, which is popular on the retail market among campers who use the advanced water filter to decontaminate the water from virtually any source. In Western Kenya, large 50-liter LifeStraw Community water tanks are being distributed, with one provided for every 100 students. 

This is critical in a country where approximately 40 percent of the 48 million people bathe in and drink from, water sources that are contaminated. These include rivers, ponds, and shallow boreholes. The result is often serious diseases such as typhoid, which causes high rates of child mortality.

Vestergaard and LifeStraw’s program Follow the Liters initiative, provides clean drinking water a student for a full year, for each bottle sold. As reported in 2018, the progress of the project is being meticulously tracked, with teams in SUVs canvassing regions and often traveling great distances to deliver effective systems for generating clean water to remote rural schools.