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It takes as little as $4 worth of steel to make the world’s most notorious killing device–the AK-47. But the nearly 20 million of them fueling wars in Africa cost the continent more than $18 billion per year, according to Oxfam.

It’s a disparity that bugged John Zapolski, a growth strategy expert who teaches at The School of Visual Arts in New York. He saw the wreckage first-hand in Tanzania when his work with local entrepreneurs was cut short by armed men. When he discovered that his friend Ethos Water-founder Peter Thum had a similar experience distributing aid in Kenya he did what any self-respecting capitalist maverick would do: Start a company to solve the problem