Did you know more than 5 million seniors regularly go hungry? Citymeals-on-Wheels raises private funds to ensure no homebound elderly New Yorker will ever go a day without food or human company.

Michael Bolton, Marcia Stein, and FIJI Water CEO John Cochran

On November 20, FIJI Water employees in the NY region gathered at the Citymeals-on-Wheels distribution center on Manhattan’s Upper East Side to help make deliveries to the elderly. Each employee helped make deliveries of five or more meals to home-bound recipients. Our very own CEO, John Cochran, also delivered meals with FIJI friend and multi-platinum recording artist Michael Bolton. Read the rest of this entry »

What’s built through donations, generosity, care, and volunteers? A Habitat for Humanity house! On November 5, 2009, the FIJI LA office took a trip to Downey and Imperial, Calif., to spend the day with Habitat for Humanity.

At the Habitat for Humanity site in Imperial, Calif.

Employees split up into teams at two different sites in various degrees of completion. Some were hammering, building, and constructing, while others were painting, gardening, and putting the trimmings on an almost finished house. The site in Imperial, still in the early stages of construction, will be one of Habitat for Humanity’s many LEED-certified homes. At the Downey site, a home is in the final stages for Betty, a single mother of three children, two of whom require special Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve never experienced Benihana, now is your chance: This month, FIJI Water is giving away (8) $50 Benihana gift cards! The best part? Benihana will donate all proceeds from FIJI Water sales at its 77 restaurants in North America to Best Buddies, an organization dedicated to creating friendship, employment, and leadership opportunities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Benihana is a Meal and a Show!

On October 23 and 24, the FIJI Water Foundation partnered with the Give Clean Water organization to install water filters in Fiji communities. More than 35 FIJI Water employees, students, teachers, and FIJI Water family members volunteered for the event. Even the Give Clean Water bus drivers decided to stick around and help when they saw the work the volunteers were engaged in. Even our youngest volunteer, Philip Scougall (age 1), lent a helping hand! Read the rest of this entry »

Susana Tikoisuva recovers at Lautoka Hospital as her mother sits by her side.

Last Thursday, the Friends of Fiji Heart Foundation wrapped up their week of work here Fiji — a week that saw more than 30 individuals receive free life-saving heart surgeries, including single, double, and triple bypasses and pacemaker installations. The FIJI Water Foundation was the major sponsor of the Friends of Fiji Heart Foundation’s 2009 medical trip and had the opportunity to scrub into the wards and to meet with doctors, nurses, patients, and families. We were deeply moved and humbled by Read the rest of this entry »

FIJI Water partners with Best Buddies for its East and West Coast Challenges.

Close to 1,500 people took part in the weekend”s festivities at Quail Lodge Resort & Golf Club for the annual Audi Best Buddies Challenge: Hearst Castle. The events included the 100-mile cycling course from Carmel to San Simeon, on Saturday, September 12. The Challenge, hosted by Maria and Anthony Shriver, raised a record amount of more than $4 million for Best Buddies International. Read the rest of this entry »

Chicago philanthropists arrive for an evening out to benefit children battling pediatric cancer.

Philanthropy plays a big role in our lives here at FIJI Water, and the coming of September heralds the flagship event of one our favorite charities, Children”s Oncology Services, Inc. (COSI). Set in the magnificent Harold Washington Library Winter Garden, Toque: An Evening With Chicago”s Culinary Masters, is fast becoming a Chicago tradition and is proof that philanthropy can be not only rewarding, but delicious as well. Read the rest of this entry »

The three Fijian children who received heart surgeries return home.

A few weeks ago in August, Shivangani Chand said goodbye to her schoolmates at Rabulu Indian School in rural Tavua, Fiji — but not as any 10-year old child might on a typical Friday afternoon. The following day she traveled to Nadi with her mother, where she joined two other children, Josefo Qionibaravi of Nausori and Timoci Tagiciverata of Kadavu, on a life-changing journey. Read the rest of this entry »

Now when you purchase FIJI Water from September 1 until October 31, in the NYC metro area and California, you will be doing so much more than quenching your thirst. FIJI Water will donate $1.00 per case or 5% of gross sales sold at participating retailers, restaurants, and hotels. In addition, one meal will be donated for each case bought via home delivery service to the Citymeals-on-Wheels and other Meals on Wheels programs. FIJI Water will contribute up to a maximum of $30,000.

Meals-on-Wheels programs provide a continuous lifeline of nutritious food, human company, and love to homebound elderly in need, thereby helping them to live with dignity in their own familiar homes and communities through private funds.

Thanks to their partnership with the New York City Department for the Aging, along with gifts designated for administrative expenses, Citymeals-On-Wheels can promise that 100% of all other donations will be used entirely for the preparation and delivery of meals.

In 2008, contributors helped bring more than 2.2 million nutritious meals to 18,065 frail aged in every borough of New York City. In addition, more than 1,500 volunteers collectively spent 62,000 hours visiting and delivering meals to New York”s frail aged.

FIJI Water is also working with Meals-On Wheels in Greater San Diego, San Francisco, Alameda County, and St. Vincents Meals on Wheels to help West Coast elderly in need to also receive warm meals and loving human contact. For a list of these participating retailers and restaurants, click here.

Now, you can help, too, when purchasing FIJI Water in California and the NYC metro area or via home delivery at www.shopwww.fijiwater.com.

Let’s drink to that!