{"id":1000,"date":"2016-02-10T21:06:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2016-02-10T21:06:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T21:06:41","slug":"women-collect-water-for-flint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Women collect water for Flint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/102.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1001\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1001\" src=\"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/102-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/102-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/102-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/102-1024x745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/102-1200x873.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/102.jpg 1274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Sumayya Sulaiman learned about the water crisis in Flint, Mich., her thoughts turned to the babies who had been drinking formula mixed with lead-tainted water.<\/p>\n<p>Young children are particularly vulnerable to the toxic levels of lead in Flint\u2019s water supply. And Sulaiman, 20, a Herndon resident, wanted to do something to help.<\/p>\n<p>She decided that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/fairfax-women-collect-bottled-water-to-send-to-flint\/2016\/02\/09\/1ff21698-cf33-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">collecting donations of bottled water to deliver to Flint <\/a>would be an ideal project for the Northern Virginia chapter of Women Empowering Women \u2014 Diamonds in the Rough, which she recently started with her longtime friend, Juli Diaz-Perez. Late last month, the group set up a table outside the Giant supermarket on Dranesville Road in Sterling to collect donations of water and other supplies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/fairfax-women-collect-bottled-water-to-send-to-flint\/2016\/02\/09\/1ff21698-cf33-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full story&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, February 10, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Sumayya Sulaiman learned about the water crisis in Flint, Mich., her thoughts turned to the babies who had been drinking formula mixed with lead-tainted water. Young children are particularly vulnerable to the toxic levels of lead in Flint\u2019s water supply. And Sulaiman, 20, a Herndon resident, wanted to do something to help. She decided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Women collect water for Flint&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[124,3,127,80],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-fairfax-county","tag-loudoun-county","tag-nonprofits","tag-sterling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}