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"At the Academy Awards, I mentioned my wife, and I said: The people we love, we have to work on those relationships," Affleck said. "The other thing that I work on is Eastern Congo."

 

"I felt like I wasn't doing enough to give back to the world. So I found one of the most damaged, suffering places in the world, where 1 in 5 children die before the age of 5. It's a place where a million people are displaced, regularly, inside the country. Where there's the worst gender-based violence in the world…There are a lot of things to lament, particularly in the last 15 years when 5.5 million people died from conflict-related violence."

 

In a beautifully animated video recently released by his Eastern Congo Initiative, Affleck further explains his reasons behind starting the organization — stating that his work to help the Congolese will remain his proudest achievement. 

 

"No question in my mind, that down the road, when I'm an old man and I look back on my life, this will be the thing I most respect," he says. 

 

Check out the short film below.