Acumen. Dignity is an essential value for all the people that Acumen works with in various countries. It is more important than wealth. As organization Acumen works to empower people to find solutions locally by developing a laboratory to test, validate and share best practices. An example mentioned in the conversation was the Tanzania based factory that produces bed nets that provide families in Tanzania protection from malaria inducing insects. Acumen invested $325K alongside with IFC in exchange for equity. In total they invested $100M in 60-80 enterprises in countries where people live on less than 4$ per day. The areas for investments include health and nutrition, water, agriculture, housing and energy and the key countries they focus on are India, Pakistan and Kenya. Another example of very interesting projects include drip irrigation and Dial 1298 emergency ambulance system in Pakistan.