In the past month, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has escalated from a local controversy into a federal state of emergency declared by President Barack Obama himself, who allocated $80 million to the city. Residents are dying because of govermental negligence, lead poisoning and what’s even worse is that residents are still being billed for this water, shame. Thousands of people are feared to have suffered permanent brain damage, and at last count 10 residents have died from Legionnaire’s disease, linked to the lead-contaminated water.
Some of the biggest donations have come from our community and we couldn’t be prouder. Here’s our list of 10 Celebs Giving Back for the cause!
1). The Game Donated $500,000 and 500,000 bottles of water topping our list of do-gooders.
2). Big Sean – A Michigan native himself, Big Sean joined forces with CrowdRise campaign to raise funds for Flint. He made a personal $10,000 donation and as of today his campaign has raised over $57K.
3). KEM partnered with Salvation Army to launch a text to donate Water campaign and also donated $10,000 to the cause.
4-6). Diddy, Wiz Khalifa and Eminem – teamed up to donate a million bottles (5,000 cases) of water to Flint through AQUAhydrate, owned by Diddy and Mark Wahlberg.
9). Aretha Franklin – Joined in to provide free hotel rooms for up to Flint residents and provide them with food daily.
10). Meek Mill – Donated 50,000 bottles to the cause and made an un-disclosed cash donation to the Michigan Food Bank.
