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| The The assets dedicated to the Foundation consisted of a contract in favour of the Foundation whereby 1% of all proceeds received from the sale of Michel Comte products shall go to the Foundation. The sum of CHF 250'000.00 had already been granted for the establishment of the Foundation by board members. Michel Comte himself acts as President of the For 2 Dollars healthy, drinking water for 1 person! Since established in 2004 the in cooperation with the Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology has given 82’000 people, mostly young children, in five countries (Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Ecuador) access to clean water. The lack of adequate water supply leads to water-borne diseases like diarrhoea and every day more than 6’000 cases end in death. Michel Comte: «This is equivalent to one child dying every 15 seconds or 30 jumbo jets crashing every day.» >> |
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