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VIDEO How top NYC nightclub promoter turned to save millions of lives in Africa: Scott Harrison

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By Lee Min-young
  • Published Jan 28, 2020 4:30 pm KST
  • Updated Jan 28, 2020 4:30 pm KST

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Article By Lee Gyu-lee

Scott Harrison was the life of the party in New York in the late 1990s. As promoter for the Big Apple's 40-plus nightclubs, he was paid good money for drinking brand vodkas and was always part of good-looking crowds.

That was until the day he decided to bring clean drinking water to those who could not get it. Now as CEO and founder of the non-profit organization, Charity: water, he looks back, telling himself and others that his two seemingly contrasting lives come down to the same principle ― sort of.

“The act of promoting never stopped,” Harrison told The Korea Times, Friday. “I just started promoting something wildly different, the idea of humanitarian service.”

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