Ediya Coffee Delivers Clean Water to Guatemala with 'Ediya Water'

At the agreement ceremony held at the Good Neighbors headquarters in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Namyeop Kim, Vice President of Management Support Division at Ediya Coffee (left), and Seongju Hwang, Head of Sharing Marketing Division at Good Neighbors (right), are posing for a commemorative photo.

[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Saeng-hye] Ediya Coffee signed an agreement on the 13th with the international relief and development NGO Good Neighbors to support the Guatemala Water and Sanitation Support Project. From that day, Ediya Coffee will donate a portion of the sales proceeds from the bottled water "Ediya Water," sold at stores nationwide, to this project.

This agreement was established in a way that allows Ediya Coffee customers to directly participate in supplying clean drinking water to Guatemala, a representative coffee-producing region overseas. When customers purchase Ediya Water at Ediya Coffee stores, 10% of the purchase amount is accumulated, and Ediya Coffee headquarters donates the entire accumulated amount to the Water and Sanitation Support Project.

Ediya Coffee launched Ediya Water in 2015 for the convenience of store visitors. This bottled water is produced from groundwater drawn from a 200-meter-deep bedrock aquifer in the pristine area around Sobaeksan National Park in Gyeongsangbuk-do Province. It is a natural mineral water rich in potassium, calcium, magnesium, and other minerals. Ediya Water is available at over 3,000 Ediya stores nationwide.

At the event, Namyeop Kim, Vice President of Management Support Division at Ediya Coffee, said, "The water and sanitation support project in coffee bean producing regions is one of the ways we fulfill our social responsibility as a coffee company." He added, "We plan to continue meaningful social contribution activities both overseas and domestically."