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Welcome to Nika

Have you head of Nika Water? A featured non-profit org of More Than Me Global, Nika has been featured on this blog several times, so I'm sure you've seen them around. If you haven't, allow me to introduce you:

"Through the sale of our premium bottled water, NIKA hopes to bring a voice to the world’s poor who suffer without the basic right to clean water and simple sanitation. And by donating 100% of our profits to support clean water projects in impoverished countries, NIKA will provide the basic tools and critical assistance to help thousands of families improve their lives in a meaningful way and end the cycle of poverty. Our goal is to create awareness and knowledge to serve as a catalyst for thousands of youth to get involved in our quest to bring clean water to the impoverished world.

Mindful of our duties as stewards of the Earth, NIKA has been certified as CarbonFree® by Carbonfund.org through our investment in carbon offsetting programs such as a reforestation project in Nicaragua. In addition, NIKA has developed a very unique recycling program where we pay high schools around the country a small fee for each plastic bottle that the school collects and recycles. Through this "One-for-One Recycling Program," our aim is not only to be plastic bottle neutral but an advocate of the importance and simplicity of basic recycling as well.

Our founders are a group of seasoned business executives who have successfully built and expanded for-profit businesses and who now share a common focus of creating social and environmentally responsible businesses that can be used to help solve global problems. Our founders have funded all of NIKA's startup and launch/operating losses and will realize no compensation or economic benefit from NIKA's operations. We are committed to making NIKA truly the most ethical bottled water brand on the market."

With the warm summer months approaching, commit to ONLY drinking Nika Water this year and make a difference in the process!

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Clean Water in Kenya

As many of you know, the extended Nika Water family traveled to Kenya this summer with our charity partner Free The Children. It was an incredibly beautiful, life changing and humbling experience. Seeing so much progress there makes everything we do, and everything you support, completely worth it! Thank you as always. Videos are to come, but check out some of the pictures here in the meantime!

A HUGE HELPING GIVEAWAY

Nika Water is trying to build a school in Kenya so that the children in neighboring villages will have access to a good education AND clean water. It's a win-win! They will donate $1 to the school for every 'Like' they get on facebook. They need $7500 dollars {7500 likes!} and are currently at around 4900- 2600 more to go. So, we are going to help push them to their goal!

The winner of this giveaway will receive a free Nika 'To Give' t-shirt, plus a thank-you card from Nika Water for their contribution.

What you have to do to enter {follow these 3 simple steps!}:

1. BECOME A FOLLOWER ON THIS BLOG ---------->

2. 'LIKE' Nika Water on their FACEBOOK page

3. Leave a comment here letting me know you've done 1 & 2

Winner will be announced on Monday, July 18!!!

A dedication to the planet and the people on it...

Don't you just love an NGO that focuses on helping people AND the planet? That's why Nika Water is one of my favorites!

Easy ways you can contribute money to Nika Water (won't cost you a cent!)

Hi Nika Community,

Nika is really excited to announce a partnership ship with Cheap Sally (www.cheapsally.com) an online coupon company! You might ask "what the heck one has to do with the other?" Well, Cheap Sally has great coupons and deals available via their web site. In fact, often times the deals are so good that the consumer can save between 5% and 25% off of the price at more than 9,000 different retailers throughout the country. Cheap Sally says that there is no reason to ever pay full retail!

Cheap Sally has offered Nika a great deal. For every email sign up on Cheap Sally they have agreed to donate $1.00 towards poverty alleviation on Nika's behalf! If all of our email subscribers would sign up we would be able to donate 2 schools in Kenya or Tanzania! All you have to do is join their email list! In return you will not only be helping Nika but you will have access to great deals and coupons that can save you money!

Click here to sign up for CheapSally's emails and donate $1.

Thanks again for your support!

Please stay eco-friendly by passing this email to a friend, rather than just trashing it.

The Nika Team

ALSO:

Go to FACEBOOK and like us there and we'll donate $1!

Project Jenya & Nika Water

We have made a mission out of giving people a very easy way to do a good thing every day. Right now, we've got another small way to make a big difference. Enter... Project Kenya on Facebook!

Not a fan of Nika Water on Facebook yet?

Now is the time to do it. If we can get 7500 new fans by June, Nika will donate a school in Kenya! For every "like" we get, Nika will donate $1 to the project. We need $7,500 to make that dream a reality for hundreds of kids, so be sure to “Share This With Your Friends” by clicking the link on the bottom of the flier after you "like" us.

Already a fan of Nika Water on Facebook?

We need your help too. Please click the “Project Kenya” link under our profile picture, and "Share This With Friends" on the bottom of the flier!

Nika

To The Nika Community,

Our Tanzania Project from last year's Walk For Water has come to recent completion with 53 new water points and 60 rehabilitated points finished. What a success! So we're doing it again. World Water Day is this Sunday, so spreading awareness is more important now than ever. We will be teaming with Project Concern International for our annual event and invite you all to register and come out (rain or shine) to participate. Like last year, it will be held at Mission Bay/Tecolote Shores from 9am-12pm.

Plus, Nika is expanding in all sorts of exciting ways! Thanks to your interest, support and demand, Nika will be available to more of our community in new areas. By being part of the "wave of new social entrepreneurialism", we've met some great groups. Help us to connect with even more! For our local (and not so local) fans, we have awesome new ways to create more donations online and at the best fairs, festivals and fundraisers in Southern California.

The Nika Team

Show off what you love!

Wear your NIKA WATER t-shirt and show off your support.

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Easy Ways to be Part of Nika Water

To The NIKA Community,


Happy February! As always, we'd first like to thank you for your support. As you can see below, NIKA had the opportunity to change the lives of over 5,000 people last year. That's all because of you!

With the new year, we've got new products, new offers, new pricing and new energy! Hey, we've even got a new style for our email to you. See how many of these options relate to you (probably all of them, if you try). Whether you are interested in carrying NIKA Water for your office's clients and employees or you're ready to buy your first case of our premium H2O online- both are more affordable now. Plus, we've got an amazing new article in the San Diego Union Tribune paper, where you can hear more about us and other great social cause companies!

Click around, see our new homepage and stay eco-friendly by passing this post to a friend!
The NIKA Team

Nika Water Contest!

A message from the founder of Nika Water:

Hello NIKA community!


We know that having your inbox overflowing with emails from different groups can be a pain. So we’ll keep this short, sweet and to the point. (In short), Nika Water is up for a Stay Classy Award for the second year in a row! We won our category last year because of the unbelievable support of people like you. This time we are nominated in the “Philanthropic Small Business of the Year” category again and are asking for you to help us take home the honor again (Sweet!). A repeat win is not about us, but about creating even more awareness for the world water crisis and legitimacy that companies like ours are continuing to make a difference. So all that we ask is that you visit the link, register or find your password from last year and vote for Nika Water (that’s the point). The NIKA award is at the bottom of the list of awards. You don't have to vote for all of the other contests if you don't want to. Unlike last year, you only have to vote once this time and you’re done! See? Reading this only took 2 minutes of your time. Voting will take another 2 minutes. In under 5 minutes you’ve done a really good thing for the day! Share the feeling by forwarding this email to your friends or re-posting the link on Facebook or Twitter.

Please click here to vote

Thanks so much for your time!

The NIKA Team

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF NIKA WATER!

Through the sale of our premium bottled water, NIKA hopes to bring a voice to the world’s poor who suffer without the basic right to clean water and simple sanitation. And by donating 100% of our profits to support clean water projects in impoverished countries, NIKA will provide the basic tools and critical assistance to help thousands of families improve their lives in a meaningful way and end the cycle of poverty. Our goal is to create awareness and knowledge to serve as a catalyst for thousands of youth to get involved in our quest to bring clean water to the impoverished world.
Mindful of our duties as stewards of the Earth, NIKA has been certified as CarbonFree® by Carbonfund.org through our investment in carbon offsetting programs such as a reforestation project in Nicaragua. In addition, NIKA has developed a very unique recycling program where we pay high schools around the country a small fee for each plastic bottle that the school collects and recycles. Through this "One-for-One Recycling Program," our aim is not only to be plastic bottle neutral but an advocate of the importance and simplicity of basic recycling as well.
Our founders are a group of seasoned business executives who have successfully built and expanded for-profit businesses and who now share a common focus of creating social and environmentally responsible businesses that can be used to help solve global problems. Our founders have funded all of NIKA's startup and launch/operating losses and will realize no compensation or economic benefit from NIKA's operations. We are committed to making NIKA truly the most ethical bottled water brand on the market.


What is the crisis??

THE EARTH IS BECOMING MORE CROWDED

Within the next forty-five years, the world population is estimated to increase by 2.6 billion people and the bulk of this increase will occur in areas that are the least developed. This population growth, coupled with continued industrialization and urbanization of developing countries, will result in a heightened demand for water and an increase in polluted water, both of which will have serious adverse consequences on the environment.

Sadly, the availability of clean water in many underdeveloped areas of the world is extremely scarce as once dependable rainfall patterns are failing to replenish the local water table. The United Nations estimates that in 2005, 1.1 billion people (20% of the global population) lacked access to safe, affordable, drinking water, and 2.6 billion people (40% of the global population) lacked access to safe sanitation. About 80% of those lacking such access live in sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Asia and Southern Asia. Without creative solutions to increase the availability of clean water, these impoverished communities around the world will continue to languish.

SPREAD OF WATER-RELATED DISEASE

Water-related diseases are one of the most devastating consequences resulting from a pervasive lack of clean water, destroying not only lives but also local economies. In 2004 alone, 2.2 million people died due to unsafe drinking water, most of which were children under the age of 5. This amounts to around 6,000 deaths a day. In addition, it is estimated that 50% of all hospital beds in the developing world are currently occupied by patients with diarrheal illness as a result of exposure to contaminated water. If the world does not act to provide basic access to clean water, as many as 135 million additional people will die from these water-related diseases by 2020. On top of the massive death toll, local economies and household budgets are drained by the constant need to purchase expensive medicines in order to combat the effects of consuming polluted water.

The solution to ending the cycle of poverty and disease in these impoverished communities is crystal clear: investment in the creation and strengthening of basic sanitation infrastructures to provide access to clean water. Improving sanitation infrastructure in these impoverished communities could reduce diarrhea-related deaths in young children by more than one-third and if hygiene promotion is added, such as simply teaching proper hand washing, deaths could be reduced by two thirds. Access to water must be a human right that all can enjoy and yet globally, it does not exist.

WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED

The lack of available clean water has other detrimental social consequences as well. Without the basic availability of toilets and in order to maintain their social dignity, women are forced to defecate only in secluded areas at night, making them susceptible to violence.

Furthermore, in the rural areas of many developing countries, women and children are not able to acquire an elementary education because they are required to provide water each day to their family or village. This can mean up to a 5-mile walk, one way, only to arrive at a river, pond or stream contaminated with bacteria. Furthermore, the containers used to transport water usually hold about 15 liters of water and weigh up to 15 kilograms. Such a physically difficult and time consuming responsibility means that these women and children are not able to go to school due to fatigue or simply because they are not afforded the time.

In addition, many young women in these areas are marrying between the ages of 12 and 16 years. By keeping these women in school, they can become educated and potentially avoid marrying at such a young age. This ultimately benefits the local community as older, more educated women might opt for smaller, more economically manageable family sizes resulting in more moderate population growth and less pressure on available resources. As surprising as it sounds, these positive changes all start with providing clean water to these families and their children so they can sustain safe and healthy lives and have the time and the strength to start and finish school.

How can you help??
Buy Nika Water! or any of their other great items! Donate to the cause, spread the word through facebook and twitter, raise awareness and dedicate yoursefl to drinking water that makes a difference!

  Go here to check out their awesome website for more info!