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Flint Kid Founder #DearFlintKids & #WednesdaysForWater. Cheerleader. Future President. Watch Me Change the World. Account Monitored By Mom LL
Jan 28 7 tweets 5 min read
Hey @NICKIMINAJ and @theestallion I have an idea! Let me introduce myself. I’m Mari and I’m a 16 year old from Flint, MI. I have been working half of my life to get clean water not just to Flint but to hundreds of other communities dealing with clean water crisis. Image During the Flint water crisis I gave out over 1M bottles of water. But I learned a few things from doing that.
1. Bottled water is great for immediate crisis response but long term use is not cost effective
2. 90%+ of the empty water bottles were going to landfills
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Jul 8, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
You guys, we need to talk about the water in Flint. This summer so many people are reporting issues. I have video from a month ago of our water coming out of the tap brown. Every day is more complaints from residents. Image Another video
Feb 22, 2022 18 tweets 8 min read
Hi, I'm Mari aka (not so) Little Miss Flint. I'm a 14 year old kid from Flint. I'm an activist and philanthropist that focuses on clean water and taking care of the kids in my hometown of Flint #BlackHistoryNow (1/ When I was 6 they changed the water source in my hometown. It caused issues for almost 2 years before they admitted it was the water. We went from being able to use the tap and take bubble baths to having to depend on bottled water #BlackHistoryNow (2/