Kentucky Baptists who have experience in providing clean drinking water in underdeveloped countries are headed to Michigan.
Five teams will leave Monday for Flint to install water purification systems for families dealing with lead contamination. Coy Webb is head of Kentucky Baptist Disaster Relief. He
says the teams want the residents of Flint to know people are paying attention to what happened there.
“I think anytime there’s these long term problems they just feel like people aren’t taking notice of their needs, which many times is not true but they still feel that way. And so we hope our teams going door to door, not only can we help them get safe drinking water, but we also hope that we can help them know that there are people who care about them,” Webb said.
Teams will be leaving from the Kentucky cities of Benton, Beaver Dam, Hickory Grove, and impsonville. In the past year, the Baptists have been deployed to Zambia and Mozambique to provide safe drinking water, but this will be the first time relief teams have been dispatched in the U.S. on a water purification mission.
