00:26Basically, if we're going to drink from here,
00:28which is our main filter, the water comes out of here,
00:32we turn on this filter, and we fill this one up.
00:36The water from this one is then poured into this one.
00:41So then it's, you know, it's a process.
00:43We pour it into there.
00:45Yeah, that's my three-step system for drinking water.
00:48We just have to make more of an effort to do things
00:52because we have to use bottled water.
00:59I just want to thank everyone for being here.
01:01I mean, it's awesome to see all these wonderful faces
01:03this early in the morning on this cold of a day.
01:06I'll make sure I pick a better day next time.
01:09But we are going to hit one of the harder-hit areas in Flint.
01:13We're going to go door-to-door.
01:14I have 1,000 packs of baby wipes.
01:16We're going to deliver as many as maybe five cases per household.
01:21If we come across someone who's elderly, let's just dump 10 cases
01:26because in a lot of situations they can't get out.
01:28We want to make sure that we're getting as much water to people
01:31as humanly possible because a lot of people cannot get out of their homes.
01:35Am I coming in?
01:36The well?
01:37The picture?
01:37Yeah, the college wants it.
01:40Holiday!
01:41I moved up here in September.
01:43It was supposed to be temporary.
01:44I moved in with my best friend.
01:45Her family's been here for 40 years.
01:47And I went out and distributed water with them.
01:50Came home and posted a picture on Facebook.
01:52I mean, the response was insane.
01:54So the next morning, I started the GoFundMe page with the goal of $1,000.
01:59The donations literally came pouring in.
02:02Then GoFundMe did the campaign because I actually emailed GoFundMe and said,
02:05Hey, you know, this is for water, a basic human necessity.
02:09Is there any way you can waive your fees?
02:11And the next thing I know, they're doing the contest for the $10,000.
02:17So I let my friends from Wellesley know, my sisters from Wellesley.
02:20In a week, I don't know how much we raised.
02:22But I won, and I got the deposit in my account for $10,000.
02:26To me, that's three truckloads of water.
02:28You know, it's very easy for me to calculate how much that money means to the city of Flint.
02:33You got to bathe.
02:35You got to cook.
02:36You got to do everything with water.
02:38And I don't know.
02:40It's just bad.
02:41The water that people give us, that's all the support we have right now.
02:44It would be right for the government to do it, but I'm so thankful for the people outside of the
02:49government.
02:50They're showing how much they really care.
02:52Now, where are you guys through?
02:54Well, I had a GoFundMe page, and this is the local 6,000.
02:58So it's UAW.
02:59Okay, cool.
02:59UAW.
03:00I'm the manager here.
03:01Oh!
03:01I really appreciate you guys coming out.
03:08Our youngest daughter, we took her to the emergency twice, and her platelets were high, and her blood
03:14tests came back as, what did they say?
03:18622.
03:19As her blood count was high.
03:22You guys are the sucking people that came by.
03:25Last time was about two weeks ago.
03:27We can't use water out of our tab, can't cook with it, can't eat it, can't boil it.
03:33It's pretty bad.
03:54Amen.
03:55Another truck load of water is here today.
04:00Amen.
04:01Anybody that desire it, you can get it.
04:04Soon as church is open again, we want to try to get water to those that are sick and shut
04:10in because there are people that probably don't have water or very little water.
04:18Amen.
04:20Stand so you can recognize.
04:23Amen.
04:28Flint has fallen on extremely hard times.
04:31I don't think people understand how bad it is here.
04:35Being chased down just to get a case of water, that's sad.
04:39I've done relief work in Haiti.
04:41I went a few months after the earthquake, and they needed water too.
04:48And to be in America, a country as rich as we are, and to have to give bottled water to
04:56people, you know, it's, uh, so.
05:15A lot of Michiganders have stepped up and they've answered the call.
05:20So I think as a people, as citizens of Michigan, I'm very proud.
05:26But when it comes to our elected officials, our appointed officials, our government, I'm
05:31very disappointed.
05:32I expect more.
05:33I expect better.
05:35Somewhere along the line, someone forgot their humanity.
05:39And they forgot that they were living, breathing human beings in Flint.
05:43Either they forgot or they just didn't care.
05:45There are other cities that are actually taking the effort to test their water and finding
05:50out that there's lead in their water.
05:52Our infrastructure is too old.
05:54We send billions overseas and we can't spend the billions here.
05:57You gotta take care of home.
05:59And, uh, we're doing a piss poor job taking care of home.
06:02You have to be on myメ kritosh?
06:03We needed salvage 1945.
06:04yep, where the south.
