Matt Damon & Gary White ON: Seeing Problems and Taking Action & How to Help Others in Crisis

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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Health & Fitness, Business, Mental Health

4.8 • 28.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Jay Shetty sits down with Water.Org co-founders Matt Damon and Gary White to talk about the water crisis around the world. We see stories of extreme poverty in places that are less developed and have little to no access to basic services such as electricity and water. These stories of struggles are out there but we don’t get to hear the rawness of the situation and reality many people live in. The water crisis is real and it’s one of the major hindrances for children to have proper education and a chance at a better future. While everyone knows Matt Damon as an actor and producer and screenwriter, in 2006, he founded H20 Africa Foundation to raise awareness about water initiatives on the continent. Matt's active participation in the work of Water.Org and Walter Equity has positioned him as one of the world's experts on water and sanitation issues. Now in 1991, Gary White launched Water Partners, now the international NGO known as Water.Org. Today, he leads two organizations in creating and executing market-driven solutions to the global water crisis driving innovations in the way water and sanitation projects are delivered and financed.

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0:00.0	about 11 years ago we were in Haiti and I was introduced to a little girl who was 13.
0:04.6	She spent three to four hours every day collecting water.
0:07.6	So I say to this kid, I'm like, well, hey, you know, I kind of joke and say, now you have
0:11.4	more time for homework.
0:12.9	And she looked at me totally seriously and she's like, I don't need more time to do homework.
0:16.9	I'm the smartest kid in my class.
0:19.2	And I said, all right, well, so what are you going to do with all this time that you just
0:22.7	found?
0:23.7	You're new found four hours a day.
0:25.6	And she looked at me and she goes, I'm going to play.
0:34.2	Hey everyone, welcome back to on purpose, the number one health podcast in the world.
0:38.8	Thanks to each and every single one of you that come back every week to listen, learn and
0:43.4	grow.
0:44.4	Now I know that our community at on purpose, all of you are activists.
0:48.9	Our community is dedicated to making positive change in the world.
0:52.4	I know that all of you have got behind so many causes that we've prioritized and given
0:57.2	a platform to on this podcast.
1:00.1	And this is one of those episodes.
1:01.5	So if you've been looking and waiting to do something positive in the world to feel like
1:05.7	you're a part of the solution, then I want you to listen to this episode.
1:09.2	I want you to share it with all your friends and family that are of the same energy and
1:13.8	spirit because this one's going to make a huge difference.
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