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Chris Long travels to Tanzania to supply water for its residents

Published Jun. 29, 2015 5:15 p.m. ET

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St. Louis Rams defensive end Chris Long took a trip to Tanzania with WorldServe International, as part of his Waterboys Initiative. Long visited Mfereji Village, a community that is deprived of water. Long helped to provide its residents with filtered water.

Long said last month that he wanted to experience what the people in the village were experiencing on an everyday basis.

"Most of the burden of people fetching the water falls on young girls in subsaharan Africa -- I think it’s like 75 percent," Long said, via the Rams official website. "So what these girls are doing, they’re walking miles at times in really hot weather to get this dirty, dirty water. If you saw where they were getting it from, it’s disgusting. But people don’t know any better - - that’s just the way it is. One exercise I’m planning on doing when I go is to take that walk with some of those girls and see what it’s really like, because I think unless you put yourself in that position, you don’t know."

Long documented his trip through social media and you can see him interacting with the locals throughout his journey. 

(h/t St. Louis Rams)

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