The Spring - The charity: water story

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TLDRScott Harrison, founder of Charity Water, shares his journey from a nightclub promoter to a humanitarian, inspired by witnessing the dire need for clean water in developing countries. After a transformative experience volunteering on a hospital ship in Liberia, Scott dedicated his life to solving the water crisis. He founded Charity Water, a nonprofit focused on providing clean water globally. The charity utilizes innovative strategies to ensure transparency and efficacy, promising 100% of public donations directly fund water projects. Scott's nontraditional methods include engaging communities through social movements like birthday fundraisings. Despite skepticism towards the charity sector, Charity Water has built trust through rigorous documentation and impact tracking. A poignant moment in the charity's history was the story of Rachel Beckwith, a young girl who wanted to raise money for clean water but tragically passed away; posthumously, her campaign raised over $1 million. Charity Water has since provided clean water to over 11 million people. Scott now invites global participation in 'The Spring,' a program for sustained monthly contributions aiming to eradicate the water crisis within our lifetime.

Takeaways

  • πŸ‘ͺ Scott's journey started with personal hardship, shaping his empathy and drive for change.
  • 🏒 Charity Water was born from a nightclub promoter's awareness of clean water's significance during volunteer work.
  • 🌍 The mission is global, aiming to provide clean water to everyone.
  • πŸ’― Charity Water pledges 100% of donations to fund water projects, maintaining trust through transparency.
  • πŸŽ‚ Community-driven fundraisers, like birthday donations, effectively engage people.
  • πŸ“Ή Charity Water uses media to document and report the impact of contributions.
  • πŸ’§ Clean water access is a fundamental health issue, directly affecting millions.
  • πŸ™Œ Rachel Beckwith's legacy exemplifies how one life can catalyze widespread change.
  • πŸš€ 'The Spring' is a sustainable giving model crucial for ongoing water projects.
  • πŸ“Š Effective use of technology and transparency is key to Charity Water's success.

Garis waktu

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Scott Harrison introduces himself and shares his journey from a privileged childhood to a turning point when his mother's immune system was damaged by carbon monoxide poisoning. This event changed his life trajectory, transitioning him into a caretaker role. Despite a religious and disciplined upbringing aimed at helping others, he diverged at 18, living a hedonistic lifestyle as a nightclub promoter in New York, indulging in vices like smoking, drinking, and gambling. A moment of spiritual and emotional bankruptcy led him to pursue a year of serving others, marking his transition from nightlife to humanitarian work.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Harrison describes volunteering with a hospital ship in Liberia after being rejected by numerous organizations due to his past. Paying $500 to join, he serves as a volunteer photojournalist and witnesses life-changing surgeries, sparking a realization about the global water crisis. Observing poor living conditions, he sees villagers enduring hardships to access filthy water, affecting health and education and knowing that disease due to contaminated water surpasses deaths due to violence globally. This experience ignites his passion to address clean water access, returning to New York determined to act.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:19:43

    Scott uses his event management skills to fundraise for the water crisis, throwing a charity party and deploying GPS coordinates and stories back to donors to establish transparency. This forms the basis of Charity Water, which promises that 100% of public donations go directly to water projects. The organization also innovates by using technology and local leadership for sustainable change. Fueled by the trust-building reporting approach, their movement gains momentum with global support. Tragic and inspiring individual stories, like Rachel's, galvanize a global community to join the cause, expanding the reach of Scott's mission significantly.

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Video Tanya Jawab

  • Who founded Charity Water?

    Scott Harrison founded Charity Water.

  • What is the mission of Charity Water?

    The mission of Charity Water is to bring clean water to everyone on the planet.

  • What motivated Scott Harrison to start Charity Water?

    Scott Harrison was motivated by his experiences in Liberia, witnessing the impact of unsafe water, and realizing the importance of clean water for health.

  • How did Scott originally raise funds for clean water projects?

    Scott started by throwing a birthday party, using the donated proceeds to fund clean water projects.

  • What is the charity’s policy on donations?

    Charity Water guarantees that 100% of donations go directly to clean water projects.

  • What tragedy inspired more people to support Charity Water?

    The tragic accident and death of nine-year-old Rachel Beckwith, who had pledged her birthday to raise money for clean water, inspired many to donate.

  • How does Charity Water prove the impact of donations?

    They provide photos, GPS coordinates, and install water sensors to demonstrate project outcomes.

  • What percentage of Americans distrust charities?

    42% of Americans distrust charities.

  • How does Charity Water handle overhead costs?

    Charity Water uses a separate account funded by private donors to cover overhead costs, ensuring donations exclusively fund water projects.

  • What is 'The Spring' in Charity Water?

    'The Spring' is a monthly giving program that supports ongoing clean water provision efforts.

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Gulir Otomatis:
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    my name is scott harrison
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    just listen this is my wife my son
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    and my one on the way
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    i lead an organization called charity
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    water and our mission is to bring clean
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    water to everyone on the planet
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    i live in new york city now but i didn't
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    always
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    i grew up in suburbia and this was my
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    house
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    my dad was a businessman and my mom was
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    a writer
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    they loved each other and they loved me
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    we were a happy family until we weren't
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    when i was four years old my mom
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    collapsed on the bedroom floor
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    we'd just moved into a new house and our
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    house had a carbon monoxide gas leak
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    but none of us knew it until then
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    [Music]
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    she didn't die that day but her immune
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    system did
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    she became allergic to everything
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    perfume
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    the ink from books radio waves
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    she wore strange masks all the time and
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    was often connected to oxygen
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    the toxic gas destroyed her immune
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    system and in a way
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    my childhood too after the poisoning our
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    roles reversed
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    and i began to take care of her as the
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    only child i had to be a good one
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    i learned to cook do laundry and take
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    care of the house
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    i was a good christian kid who played
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    piano in church and wanted to be a
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    doctor when i grew up to help sick
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    people like her
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    until i turned 18.
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    [Music]
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    music was my escape so i joined a band
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    and moved to new york
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    right about the time when the band broke
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    up i got involved
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    in producing these like live music shows
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    in the city
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    but i realized that you could actually
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    get paid
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    in new york city to drink alcohol for
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    free this job was called
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    a nightclub promoter so you just had to
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    get beautiful people in the clubs
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    and if you got the right people in the
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    clubs you could charge guys 500
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    to buy a bottle of champagne that cost
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    you 40.
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    i moved from club to club to club
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    filling up the vip section
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    and flashing my rolex to the club
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    photographers
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    for almost 10 years after that i smoked
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    two packs of cigarettes a day
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    and was out drunk almost every night i
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    was into strip clubs
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    gambling and just about every drug
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    except heroin
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    on new year's eve we all went to puente
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    de lesta
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    uh it's a kind of party town in uruguay
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    we rented this incredible house with
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    cooks waiters and magnums of expensive
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    champagne although it looked glamorous
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    on the outside
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    there was a long
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    decline in happiness
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    i remember just feeling so unhealthy
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    about it all
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    the next day the party was still going
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    but i wanted the music to stop
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    i realized i was spiritually bankrupt i
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    was emotionally bankrupt i was
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    certainly morally bankrupt i tried to
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    find my way back to a very lost faith
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    i wanted things to be different i left
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    nightlife
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    sold almost everything i owned and
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    decided to take one year off
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    to try serving others instead of myself
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    i'm applying i'm filling out these long
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    applications for these
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    very credible humanitarian organizations
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    that have long histories
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    i put in the applications and then i
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    wait
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    and i guess i should not have been
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    surprised but i am denied by all of
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    these organizations
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    they won't even let me volunteer because
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    of my past
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    sarah like what do you do again we're
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    serious people
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    thankfully one organization says if you
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    pay us 500
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    a month you can volunteer with us
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    so i said here are my credit card
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    details where are you guys going they
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    were an amazing
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    team of doctors and surgeons who
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    traveled the world on a hospital ship
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    they specialized in removing facial
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    tumors and they were going to liberia
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    one of the poorest countries in the
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    world and a country i'd never even heard
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    of
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    i say i'm going to sign up and be your
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    volunteer photojournalist i'd always
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    taken pretty good pictures and photos
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    and
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    love telling stories everything in my
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    life changed
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    i decided in one fell swoop to kind of
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    never smoke again and never touch drugs
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    again
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    you know to never gamble again to you
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    know to swear off pornography and strip
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    clubs and just i needed
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    to walk so far in the other direction
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    and i walked up this gangway and this
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    became my new home
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    nothing could have prepared me for what
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    i was about to see
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    hi my name is scott i think we may be
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    able to help you
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    i met a man named harris he was
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    suffocating to death
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    with a benign tumor i got to see
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    harris's transformation
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    because of an amazing surgeon named dr
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    gary parker
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    so we we've got to get your blood nice
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    and strong
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    for our operation huh dr gary had moved
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    his entire family on the ship
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    to volunteer for a short time that was
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    29 years ago
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    he just never left i'd never met anyone
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    with that kind of dedication before very
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    happy we can uh
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    schedule and he'll spend christmas here
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    first uh first good christmas in 13
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    years
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    a couple weeks later i got to take
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    harris back home to his village
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    with an entirely new face ready to start
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    a new life
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    the uniform that's put on people when
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    you have these terrible deformities is
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    you're rubbish you're worthless you're
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    spiritually cursed your
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    and when you can change the uniform
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    it's huge and the person starts to
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    imagine that they might not be rubbish
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    after all no one in our world is rubbish
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    [Music]
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    there was one day when more than 5 000
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    sick people came to see our doctors
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    some of them had walked for more than a
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    month
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    but there were too many of them and we
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    just didn't have enough doctors
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    i remember holding my camera crying
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    [Music]
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    we had to turn thousands away
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    we were changing individual lives every
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    day
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    but i wanted to do even more i'm
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    documenting these life-changing
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    surgeries but i started to spend more
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    and more time out in
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    the rural villages and as i would travel
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    around these villages
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    i would see the most shocking things
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    about 475 people living here
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    this is what they're drinking you can
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    see there's bugs
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    crawling around in it
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    i'm sort of putting this together saying
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    look thousands of people are turning up
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    sick
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    and the most basic need for health isn't
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    even met
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    it wasn't okay kids shouldn't be
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    drinking from scummy swamps
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    or ponds or rivers
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    [Music]
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    again
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    he came here to fetch water yeah and a
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    crocodile
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    fell into the river and if crocodile
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    snatched him disappeared
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    not even our body was not even found
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    there were so many diseases caused by
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    bad water cholera
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    dysentery trachoma belharzia things i'd
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    never even heard of
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    on top of that i found out people
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    weren't just drinking this filthy water
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    they were breaking their backs to get it
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    women and girls are usually the ones
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    responsible often walking for hours
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    every day
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    as a result many girls never make it
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    through school they trade in their
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    education and dreams to carry 40 pound
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    jerry cans
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    so their families can have water
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    dirty water is responsible for more
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    death in the world than
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    all forms of violence including war
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    even if it were a million people this
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    would be a crisis
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    but it's not one million it's 785
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    million people who live on our planet
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    right now
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    without access to clean water that's
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    twice the population of the united
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    states
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    nearly one in ten people worldwide
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    behind those statistics were real lives
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    people who were dying because they
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    couldn't get clean water
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    and many of them were children
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    [Music]
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    [Music]
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    i began to become really interested in
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    the the water issue and
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    who was doing something about this how
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    come more people weren't talking
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    about water
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    [Music]
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    i came back to new york city ready to go
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    so it started with a party it's the only
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    thing i knew how to do i was a nightclub
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    promoter so i got someone to donate a
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    club i threw my 31st birthday party i
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    got 700 people
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    to come out i lured them with open bar
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    and i charged them 20 bucks at the door
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    and this time instead of pocketing the
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    15 000
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    we took it immediately to a refugee camp
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    in northern uganda
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    we built three wells we fixed three
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    wells and then
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    we sent the photos and the gps and the
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    story
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    back to those 700 people this was a big
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    deal people could not believe that a
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    charity would bother to report to them
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    on a 20
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    gift and it's something actually
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    happened with the money that they could
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    see that they could connect with
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    700 people proved that we could make a
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    difference even 20
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    at a time this was the beginning of
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    charity water
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    as i'm talking about setting up a
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    charity i realize that so many of my
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    friends don't trust
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    charities in fact i learned 42
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    of people in america alone don't trust
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    charities
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    from the beginning i was determined to
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    do things differently
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    and i had a few big ideas first we'd
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    handle money differently
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    from day one charity water made a bold
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    promise that a hundred percent
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    of all donations would go directly to
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    clean water
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    i opened up a separate bank account for
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    overhead and we never touched the water
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    money to pay for things like staff
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    salaries
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    office rent or travel expenses we
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    started looking for generous people
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    with the resources to cover those
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    overhead costs
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    second we proved each water project we
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    funded
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    we put photos and gps coordinates on
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    google maps and even attached gps
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    trackers to drilling rigs so people
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    could follow them
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    later we created and installed thousands
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    of remote water sensors
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    so we know that the project continued to
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    work over time and even how much clean
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    water was flowing
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    third we believe for the work to be
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    sustainable it had to be led by locals
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    water and sanitation program creates
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    an enabling environment so that all
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    aspects of development
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    can take off in the beginning
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    usually a handful of people were in the
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    office every single day
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    and it was funny back then because we
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    were trying to look so professional and
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    put together when if you just walked in
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    the office and saw how
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    we did what we did we had no idea what
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    we were doing
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    and we were just making everything up as
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    we went
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    we built outdoor exhibitions staged
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    water walks and designed ads that made
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    people think differently about water
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    we got space on buses and taxis donated
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    spreading the word to everyone we could
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    we took over the windows of luxury
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    retailers and created a tv commercial
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    that ran for free
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    to more than 20 million people people
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    started to take notice
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    and thousands began to donate people all
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    around the world
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    started donating their birthdays to
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    raise money for clean water a
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    seven-year-old named max
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    went door to door asking for seven
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    dollar donations
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    and he raised twenty two thousand
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    dollars maggie moran
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    gave up her 16th birthday no no ween
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    gave up her 89
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    gave up my 28th birthday for charity
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    water my 25th birthday
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    39th birthday 25th 36th 38th 44th
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    and this movement of birthdays begins to
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    spring up and people said look i don't
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    need any more stuff
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    that's exactly what rachel beckwith said
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    she heard me speak a few months before
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    her ninth birthday and told her mom that
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    instead of presents or a party she
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    wanted to raise 300
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    to help kids get clean water to drink
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    instead
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    she was disappointed when she didn't
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    reach her goal but she raised 220
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    and her mom assured her it was good
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    enough she could try again next year
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    she never got that chance
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    a few weeks later rachel lost her life
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    in a car accident
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    well just at nine years old rachel
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    beckwith already had a legacy hers was
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    charity water nbc's lee cowan explains
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    how even now
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    rachel beckwith continues to make a
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    difference
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    hundreds of strangers started to give
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    nine dollars in her honor
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    then it became thousands within weeks
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    rachel's fundraising campaign had raised
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    over 1.2 million dollars for clean water
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    the heart of this nine-year-old girl
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    inspired 32
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    000 people to give but it didn't stop
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    there
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    80 000 people pledged their birthdays
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    like rachel some people said i can't
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    wait until my birthday i just need to
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    fundraise now i need to do something
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    about this now
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    guys shave their beards complete
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    strangers started climbing mountains to
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    raise money for clean water
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    walking and biking across countries
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    sailing across
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    oceans i've been giving up christmas
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    gifts for five years
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    i've raised just above 32 000. i did 12
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    lemonade stands for charity water
  • 00:14:27
    i leave 10 000 for clean water rachel
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    reminded us
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    that charity water wasn't just our story
  • 00:14:34
    and she's now been joined by over 1
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    million people
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    helping us fund over 50 000 water
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    projects
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    that will bring clean water to more than
  • 00:14:43
    11 million people
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    and i got to see just how much impact
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    one life really can have
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    when i took rachel's family to africa
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    we greatly loved rachel and
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    continue to love her family and
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    i'm overwhelmed with how greatly you
  • 00:15:06
    have honored her memory
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    please receive my most
  • 00:15:10
    deepest and heartfelt things
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    you've done us a great honor today so
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    thank you
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    [Applause]
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    mention develop suck a big heart
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    from a young age that she understood and
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    felt
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    the pain of others on the other side of
  • 00:15:32
    the world
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    is the most beautiful gift a person
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    can give
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    [Music]
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    lives all around the world were being
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    changed
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    the kids i saw sitting in the mud with
  • 00:15:57
    the pigs drinking swamp water
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    were now drinking clean water from wells
  • 00:16:02
    cholera
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    parasites leeches those were all now
  • 00:16:05
    things of the past
  • 00:16:07
    clean water and toilets made a huge
  • 00:16:09
    difference in schools and improved
  • 00:16:10
    education for students
  • 00:16:14
    moms were now dancing around drilling
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    rigs
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    [Music]
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    [Music]
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    foreign
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    in the beginning there was water
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    always changing and bringing new life
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    wherever it goes
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    it did for me and for so many others in
  • 00:17:06
    very real ways
  • 00:17:09
    even though i didn't grow up to be a
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    doctor i'm thankful that my childhood
  • 00:17:13
    gave me awareness
  • 00:17:14
    of the importance of health of life
  • 00:17:19
    dr gary is still on that ship helping
  • 00:17:22
    people every single day
  • 00:17:25
    my mom is still here too fighting for
  • 00:17:27
    her health
  • 00:17:28
    my son knows and loves her well so will
  • 00:17:31
    my daughter
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    now i know the world will change by the
  • 00:17:36
    time my children reach my age
  • 00:17:38
    but i believe there are only a few times
  • 00:17:40
    in each of our lives
  • 00:17:42
    that we get to witness a truly historic
  • 00:17:44
    global moment
  • 00:17:47
    [Applause]
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    and giving clean water to the entire
  • 00:17:52
    planet will be one of those moments
  • 00:17:55
    i invite you to be a part of this we've
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    been able to help
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    more than 11 million people get clean
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    water
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    but we want to do so much more we want
  • 00:18:04
    to go faster
  • 00:18:06
    and help more people so we're
  • 00:18:08
    introducing a new way to do just that
  • 00:18:10
    it's called the spring we're building a
  • 00:18:13
    community of givers so generous and
  • 00:18:15
    constant
  • 00:18:16
    the world has never seen anything like
  • 00:18:18
    it before
  • 00:18:19
    people who are willing to give not just
  • 00:18:21
    once but who will stick with us
  • 00:18:23
    month in and month out faithfully
  • 00:18:25
    fighting for change
  • 00:18:28
    we subscribe to things every month cable
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    internet
  • 00:18:31
    magazines movies and music we're loyal
  • 00:18:34
    to these things
  • 00:18:35
    because they benefit our lives but the
  • 00:18:38
    spring
  • 00:18:38
    benefits other people's lives it costs
  • 00:18:42
    only forty dollars to give one person
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    clean water
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    some of you can give that every month
  • 00:18:48
    some of you can give more
  • 00:18:50
    some of you less but whatever you can
  • 00:18:53
    give
  • 00:18:54
    a hundred percent goes directly to clean
  • 00:18:56
    water and we'll keep showing you where
  • 00:18:58
    your money goes
  • 00:18:59
    and the lives that you're changing until
  • 00:19:02
    the day we can finally
  • 00:19:03
    say that no one on earth will die from
  • 00:19:06
    dirty water
  • 00:19:06
    [Music]
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    so we realize people will tell us this
  • 00:19:10
    can't be done but we think man if
  • 00:19:12
    there's ever a time
  • 00:19:13
    in the world when this is possible it's
  • 00:19:15
    certainly today
  • 00:19:16
    where people are really looking to give
  • 00:19:19
    they're looking
  • 00:19:20
    to make an impact
  • 00:19:25
    we know how to end the water crisis in
  • 00:19:26
    our lifetime and with your help
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    we will join the spring today
  • 00:19:42
    you
Tags
  • Charity Water
  • clean water
  • Scott Harrison
  • nonprofit
  • global mission
  • humanitarian efforts
  • donations
  • Rachel Beckwith
  • The Spring
  • water crisis