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Charity: Water Founder Gives Up Party Life for Poverty Cause
In our less selfish states of being, there are those of us who often speak and think about leaving everything behind to help those in need but never actually acting upon those impulses. And there are those who are like Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity: Water.
In 2004, after having been an extremely successful club promoter in New York City for over a decade (e.g. he was paid $2,000 a month separately by Bacardi and Budweiser, just to drink their beverages at parties), Mr. Harrison had a spiritual crisis/awakening. While on vacation in South America submerged in the luxuries of servants, private planes, and $10,000 hands of baccarat, Mr. Harrison became aware of how miserable he felt in what he had thought was to be the “perfect life.”
“I felt soulless,” he shared in one interview. “I was the most selfish person I knew.”
Processing the question, “what would the opposite of my life look like?” soon after his realization of how trifling his life had become, Mr. Harrison decided to leave the busy streets of New York City for the poverty stricken coasts of West Africa.
