Once a high-flying Manhattan party promoter, Scott Harrison quit the club scene to help bring free healthcare to the poor along Liberia's coast. Here, his story in his own words In 2004, Manhattan party promoter Scott Harrison quit the club scene to become a photographer aboard a ship of volunteer doctors offering free healthcare to the poor along the coast of Liberia. He shot more than 50,000 photos of the sick and the dying, many from diseases caused by a lack of clean water. In 2005, Harrison staged a show of his work in New York that raised some $96,000 for health care and freshwater wells in West Africa. Last year, he founded charity:water.org, which has raised $1.2 million to start 200 well projects in seven African nations. CONTRIBUTE’S Jesse Ellison interviewed Harrison. This is an edited version of his story. When I was four, my mother became an invalid. I grew up taking care of her; I was an only child. When I turned 18, I left Philadelphia and moved to New York, to ...
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