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LovingA2andMI

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Sat Jan 9, 2016, 05:26 AM Jan 2016

Flint Water Crisis: How You Can Help Provide Clean Water Access

There are a number of Michigan based organizations that are working to provide clean water, connections to water filters, fundraising efforts and more Flint Residents.

Here's a round up of groups, non-profits, organizations and individuals seeking to truly help the People of Flint:

1). Water You Fighting For?
A Flint, Michigan based Clean Water Activist Group ran by Melissa Mays. Ms. Mays organization is working with Flint, Michigan's Mayor Karen Weaver's task force to address the long-term health, water and infrastructural needs for the City's residents. Water You Fighting For? is also organizing bottle water drives deliver clean water to Citizens in Flint.

2). We The People of Detroit
A Detroit, Michigan based Clean Water and Resource Activist Group ran by Monica Lewis Patrick and Debra Taylor. Ms. Lewis-Patrick and Taylor's organization, presented a Flint Healing Stories Symposium in March of 2015 were residents of Flint described the difficulties during the conference, with clean water access, crime, transportation resources and more.

We The People of Detroit recently partnered with the Detroit Light Brigade Organization to Deliver and other coordination resources to deliver upwards of 9000 cases of bottle water to Flint.

Read more: http://www.reachoutjobsearch.com/2016/01/flint-water-crisis-how-you-can-help.html#ixzz3wjnPI2vy

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Flint Water Crisis: How You Can Help Provide Clean Water Access (Original Post) LovingA2andMI Jan 2016 OP
They could be bringing in big tankers with water newfie11 Jan 2016 #1
Agreed.... LovingA2andMI Jan 2016 #2

LovingA2andMI

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2. Agreed....
Sat Jan 9, 2016, 07:29 AM
Jan 2016

But until this happens, the article cites organizations, groups and non-profits that are now willing to help.

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