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Blaine High School senior Serena Sall spent her summer working on her senior project, and wound up raising funds to help over a dozen needy families.

Sall’s senior project required her to complete at least 20 hours of community service for the charity of her choice. She chose Water.org, an international charity co-founded by actor Matt Damon that supplies clean drinking water to developing nations.

“I was amazed to learn that something like 780 million people don’t have access to clean drinking water, and 3.4 million people die from water-related illnesses every year,” Sall said. “Here, you don’t even think about it when you take a bath or pour a glass of water.”