Bottle by bottle, Metropolitan District Commission employee Kenny Hinson has collected water to help Flint Michigan in the midst of a crisis.
On Friday, a group of volunteers will make the trip to deliver the donated water.
“This is a Connecticut movement for Flint,” said the head of the project, Kenneth Hinson. “We are supporting Flint.”
Kenny will lead a group of motorcycle riders called JUST US that will collect, deliver and distribute the 3,000 cases of donated water.
“We’re gunna go house-to-house with this water, this is why our movement is different than any other movement,” said Hinson. “We’re not just going to drop the water at a distribution center. We’re going to drop the water house to house to make a difference.”
As a 17-year-veteran at MDC, the water-company couldn’t be more proud of Kenny’s innovation and execution of such a large project.
“There’s a whole lot of people here that have made this a success,” said MDC chairman William DiBella. “But Ken is a ring leader I guess they call it a ring leader he was the one that went and put it together.”
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But that doesn’t mean he gets a break when the project is done
“The bus is already on its way out, when they hit the ground out there they’ll do the dissemination and they’ll be back,” said DiBella. “Ken’s going to be back to work Monday morning.”
Three tractor trailers set out for the trip to Michigan today making it the largest delivery Flint has seen during this crisis. Prior to today, the largest delivery came from one 18 wheeler from Boston.
