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Living rap legend and multimillionaire business executive Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter is one of the celebrities giving back to Africa, but in a different kind of way.
He does not focus on AIDS in Africa. He does not focus on poverty in Africa.
His focal point is the global water crisis.
Water-related diseases are the leading cause of death in the world. Carter brought this to the attention of America last year, along with other unknown facts about dehydration, in the MTV documentary “Diary of Jay-Z: Water for Life.”
Carter urged Anheuser-Busch, a leading American brewer, to support the clean water project.
While on tour last year, Carter pledged to help raise funds for the PlayPumps International (PPI) campaign “100 Pumps in 100 Days.”
Last month on World Water Day (22), the campaign was launched. Ten PlayPump water systems—an innovative pump powered by a merry-go-round—will be installed in several African nations by the end of the summer. It is just the start; of course 90 more will be installed.
PPI has donated more than 800 PlayPumps water systems in South Africa, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia. Now, they will bring clean water to nations like Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania and Uganda. Their goal is to provide up to 10 million people with the benefits of clean drinking water by 2010.
Carter has always been known to stand out and do his own thing. He is a genuine humanitarian; he saw a problem in Africa where he can find a solution to that no other celebrity is thinking of while they are too busy competing with other famous faces to fight AIDS.
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I am glad that Jay-Z brought something to the light that no one else brought to attention. Can you imagine drinking dirty water? I could not imagine drinking dirty water, so why should they?
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