Hattiesburg Stands For Flint

Hattiesburg Stands for Flint is an initiative that is striving to help the victims of Flint, Michigan. Flint is a city of 100,000 citizens with 41.6% of the population living below the poverty line, over 15,000 children are sick with lead poisoning, and the citizens must live by water in bottles. To rectify the situation, it will take an estimated $55 million or approximately $4,000 per household to repair the piping infrastructure of Flint. Until the piping infrastructure is repaired, the citizens must use water bottles, which is causing an ecological problem due to the vast amounts of unrecycled plastic bottles.