The Oscar-winning actor, producer and screenwriter co-founded nonprofit Water.org in 2009.
"And this was just an issue that was so enormous and underpinning everything, and yet nobody was talking about it, and that really kind of sparked my interest at first."
"And I just really connected to this kid because she reminded me of how I felt when I was 14 and Ben Affleck and I were going to go to the big city of New York, and we were going to be actors, and, you know that feeling that all 14-year-old's should have, that the world is kind of their oyster," Damon said.
"Had it not been for somebody having the foresight to sink a borewell near this girl's house, she wouldn't be in school, she would be spending her entire day collecting water for her family," he said.
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