The study also tracks the way search activity ebbed and flowed alongside real world events and their associated news coverage. 5, 2014, through July 2, 2016, delves into the kinds of searches that were most prevalent as a proxy for public interest, concerns and intentions. And I'm not stopping anytime soon.During the long saga of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan – an ongoing, multilayered disaster that exposed about 100,000 residents to harmful contaminants and lead and left them even as of early 2017 advised to drink filtered or bottled water – local and regional audiences used online search engines as a way to both follow the news and understand its impact on public and personal health.Ī new Pew Research Center study, based on anonymized Google search data from Jan. I have been able to travel coast to coast to speak about Flint and Flint kids. My Dear Flint Kids letter campaign has gotten thousands of letters into the hands of Flint kids, telling them that the world has not forgotten them and that they're amazing. Our Easter egg hunt brought joy to 400 kids. With help from a friend, I was able to give Flint kids 600 bikes for my birthday, along with a party for them, complete with inflatables, a candy bar, and more. With my Flint Kids Read campaign, I have been able to give out thousands of books, and to date, we have given out over 17,000 fully stuffed backpacks to kids in my community. We have given out over one million bottles of water and raised a quarter of a million dollars to make sure that bottled water doesn’t run out until residents feel like this crisis is over. With this platform I have been able to give back in some very big ways. Mari Copeny and President Obama in Flint in 2016. My mom always tells me, "When bad things happen in our lives, always look for the good." This platform was the good, and I knew that I could use it to help Flint, and eventually, change the world. And the more people that paid attention to me, the more I realized I had a platform and that I could use it to help my city. I even got the attention of President Obama.
The more I spoke up, the more people actually listened. It didn’t take long to prove my mom (and many other adults) wrong. But I knew I had to keep fighting, keep speaking, keep trying until someone listened. After all, I was just an eight-year-old kid. Back in the beginning, nobody believed that anyone would listen to me, not even my mom. I wanted to fight for the adults that had to teach the kids that the water was poison. I wanted to fight for all the kids here that were scared and confused.
When the water crisis began, all I wanted to do was to fight for my younger siblings, especially my little sister, who would get such bad rashes from the water that she would need to be covered in a special ointment and wrapped in plastic wrap to try to help heal her skin. All eyes were on the city, and donations and help poured in from every corner of the world. The entire world knew there was a deadly crisis in Flint. A couple years ago, you couldn’t turn on the news without the headlines being all about Flint and its water crisis.
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