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JAM | Nov 7, 2023

WATCH | ‘Mr Beast’ builds 100 wells in Africa, promises more globally

Shemar-Leslie Louisy

Shemar-Leslie Louisy / Our Today

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James ‘Mr Beast’ Donaldson, YouTuber and philanthropist (Photo: Instagram @mrbeast)

Mr Beast, one the world’s most popular YouTubers, known for his philanthropic content, has brought his good deeds to Africa, where he has purportedly embarked on building over 100 wells and bring clean and accessible water to close to 500,000 people in Cameroon, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

Revealed in a video posted on Saturday, November 4, Mr Beast, whose real name is James Donaldson said: “I know its weird that a YouTuber has to do all this stuff but someone’s got to do it; and if no else is then we’re going to do it and as you can tell, it really does change the lives of the communities where we help build them.”

The project’s journey began in a small village in Kenya. After each well was dug, the water was then fed into large water tanks that gave all the surrounding villages a pressurised water source, thus supplying them with immediate and readily drinkable and usable water.

James ‘Mr Beast’ Donaldson, YouTuber and philanthropist (Photo: Instagram @mrbeast)

Throughout the video, Donaldson also addressed various issues surrounding the varying communities based on their needs, including building bridges, supplying schools with new computers, and bicycles to students for transportation at another school, and refurbishing older furniture at another.

In his video, Donaldson also called on his viewers to donate in any way they can to assist with bringing more wells to communities across the globe. He pointed out that all proceeds from the video would also be going into the project.

You can donate @ beastphilosophy.org/wells

Check out the video below:

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