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Oct 2022
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Charity Water—Scott Harrison

Tyler Norwood, Antler
About this episode

After 10 years of being a club promoter in New York, Scott Harrison declared moral bankruptcy, and bought a one way ticket to Liberia to serve others.  While in Liberia Scott was faced with the startling reality of clean water access in the developing world.  Seeing how big of a problem this was, Scott decided to dedicate his life to solving it.

He flew back to New York, threw a big birthday party, invited all of his friends and raised money to build his first well.  On that day Charity Water was born.

16 years later and Charity Water has raised hundreds of millions of dollars to build thousands of wells around the world, slowly but surely given people access to life changing clean water.

You can learn more about Charity Water here or follow Scott on Twitter.

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