Matt Damon creates water.org

Matt Damon has just helped launch a new structure set up to help people with no access to drinking water.

Like his pals Brad Pitt (who has helped rebuild hundreds of houses ravaged by Hurricane Katrina) and George Clooney (who appeared last week in L'Aquila to help earthquake victims get aid to rebuild their homes), Matt Damon is using his celebrity to do good works.

The talented actor, last seen in the trilogy about an amnesiac named Jason Bourne, has helped to set up a non-profit organization called water.org, which aims to bring drinkable water to 900 million people around the world.

Damon explains: «Every 15 seconds a child in the developing world dies from water-related disease. After visiting project sites in Africa and Asia (...) I've seen the problem and the impact of safe water.»

Water.org is launching projects all over the world: in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Bangladesh, India, the Philippines, El Salvador, Guatemala and in Honduras, to name a few.

Damon is also the co-founder of another charitable organization, Not On Our Watch. Click on the links below to view the sites of these two humanitarian groups.