Eminem pushes public to donate school supplies to Flint kids

DETROIT – Detroit rapper Eminem took to Facebook Monday and asked the public to help Flint students by donating backpacks filled with school supplies.

"Give us a hand getting all 5,500 students a backpack full of supplies," Emenim said in the post.

Eminem said that 90 percent of children in the Flint public school system live in poverty.

"Continuing to keep Flint in mind," he posted.

He included a link to the "Helping Flint Kids" page of the Kids In Need Foundation.

"We were recently in Flint, and the water crisis is still a huge problem for local families," the website says. "And with back-to-school season quickly approaching, we wanted to offer a little help."

You can donate or view the website right here. The page says that $25 can buy a student school supplies for the year.