Zero Zone Effort to Help Flint, MI Residents
We’ve all heard about the contaminated drinking water supply in Flint, Michigan. Fortunately, here in Wisconsin, most of us at Zero Zone have never had to personally deal with a problem such as that.
One of our employees recently saw an opportunity to help the people of Flint in a small, but meaningful, way.
On Tuesday, February 9th, 2016, Zero Zone had a planned display case delivery to a dollar store in Flint, Michigan. Nancy Sadler, an account manager here at Zero Zone, was coordinating the shipment and thought, “Why not send a shipment of bottled water along with our display cases? There is plenty of room in the truck.” So, Nancy contacted a local bottled water company, Century Springs, and Mukwonago-based transportation company, Kezman Transportation. With only a short window of opportunity before our display case had to be shipped, all parties involved stepped up to assist with this endeavor. When all was said and done, 80 cases of donated bottled spring water were sent to the Catholic Charities–Center for Hope, which handled the distribution to those in need in the Flint community.
This act of kindness could not have been accomplished without the help of Century Springs, Kezman Transportation, the Red Cross in Flint, Catholic Charities–Center for Hope, and of course our employees here at Zero Zone. A big THANK YOU to everyone who made this possible! We sincerely hope this has helped the Flint community and are proud to have an employee like Nancy who was willing to take that extra step to find a creative way to help others.
The Flint Water Crisis was a result of lead contamination in the community’s municipal water and affected around 66% of households. Learn more about the Flint Water Crisis here.
Learn more about who Zero Zone is as a company here.