Matt Hangen grew up in the county outskirts in South Alabama at Rt. 1, Lot 1 on a two-track sand road, starting life in a 600 sq ft abandoned farmhouse that his dad had worked board-by-board to rebuild.

At 25, he moved to Togo, West Africa, and began building equipment from what was lying around to drill wells and install water pumps through local businesses. That 100 feet of soil and rock separated people from life and death was an obstacle worth overcoming in Matt’s heart.  Faced with the deathly consequences of the water crisis there, he partnered with local individuals to build equipment, drill wells, and install pumps to eradicate the water crisis at a village-to-village level--scaling to 100 wells in its 2nd year.

By age 35, he was named CEO at Water4, spending the last ten years starting, coaching, and scaling businesses in 15 countries, completing 6,500 water projects impacting 1.6 million people.

In this episode, we are excited to launch the Virtuous Profit Series with Matt Hangen.

This Virtuous Profit Series invites entrepreneurs, investors, and other interested parties within and outside the Water4 ecosystem leading to the launching of the Virtuous Profit Fund. The essence of this series is building some PR and stakeholders around the Virtuous Profit Fund (creating a Pan-African Network to make on creating prosperity across Africa)The essence is building some PR and stakeholders around the Virtuous Profit Fund (creating a Pan-African Network to build on creating prosperity across Africa). 

You can learn more about Water4.org, NUMA units, and Matt Hangen. 

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Podcast edited Sandra Lynn Co.