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This project hits very much close to home, in third world country the need for good, clean and safe drinking water is essential. The straggles of water shortage has people walking miles, carrying gallons of water on their heads and boiling it before it can be consumed. SAW
Once upon a time, Matt Damon went for a long walk in rural Zambia. The devoted family man and method philanthropist was accompanying a 14-year-old Zambian girl who had no idea that her hiking companion was an Academy Award-winning international heartthrob.
The walk came toward the end of a 10-day African journey, a systematic primer on the complexities of the continent's extreme poverty that had been organized for Damon by staffers from his friend Bono's ONE campaign. Damon was on a quest to understand what it meant to be really, really poor. "It was like a mini course in college," he says. Every day brought a different subject: urban AIDS, microfinance, education, and, finally, water.
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Water.org sees the 663 million people living without access to water and 2.4 billion living without a toilet as individuals with financial power, rights, responsibilities, and the energy and ability to design their own future. They are participants, not recipients. We are committed to developing solutions that most effectively and efficiently respond to the specific needs of each community.
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