I Am Waters Foundation From the Runway to the Streets: Elena Davis gives Houston’s homeless a message in a bottle

002 Magazine Houston — In 2009, Davis founded I Am Waters, a nonprofit foundation that provides safe, transportable water to homeless individuals and shelters. During the summer of 2011, I Am Water delivered 300,000 bottles of water throughout Houston, Ft. Worth and Austin.

Homeless Veteran, Children Get Holiday Wish | Washington | The Columbian

WASHINGTON — Erica Conger stood in her living room and eyed the 3-foot-tall Christmas tree in the corner. Four-year-old Maddox and little Ella, 2, stared at the branches of the tree as the fiber optic lights changed from blue to green to pink. The little ones plucked shiny ornaments from their plastic packaging and shoved them between the branches, unwilling to wait for hooks to hang the glass balls.

I Am Waters Foundations’ December Advertisement

Take a look at our December Ads running in this month’s copy of Paper City Magazine.

I Am Waters Foundation’s First Published Ad

I Am Waters Foundation is pleased to share our first published ad. Can be seen in the November issue of PaperCity magazine. More to follow.

I Am Waters Foundation Helps Houston’s Homeless | Houston Lifestyle Magazine

Area nonprofits provided 186,000 bottles of water to the homeless in the Bayou City thanks to a donation from the Houston-based I AM WATERS Foundation. Nearly one-third, or 68,000 bottles, went to Star of Hope for distribution to its women and children, mobile outreach and men’s programs as part of the homeless mission’s 10-week Summer of Hope program.

I Am Waters Foundation Distributes 300,000 Bottles Of Water To 3 Texas Cities Over Summer 2011

I Am Waters would sincerely like to thank our 2011 shelter partners, listed below, for allowing us to distribute 300,000 of our specially branded water bottles made especially for the homeless, through their organizations in summer 2011. We applaud each of these organizations for the amazing work they do to help homeless men, women and children in Texas to restore stability to their lives. We are humbled to be part of their efforts and contribute to ending the problem of homelessness in America.

I Am Waters Foundation Helps Hydrate The Homeless | Houston, Texas | NBC KPRC Houston

HOUSTON, TEXAS — A unique Houston-based foundation is serving a need few realize exists in the city: fresh, clean drinking water for the homeless population. “If you don’t have water, you die,” said Elena Davis, founder of I Am Waters. “It’s imperative that you have water. You can survive longer without food than you can water.” Davis founded the organization three years ago and began distributing bottles of water to 15 homeless shelters in Houston, Austin and Fort Worth. Last year, the foundation distributed 80,000 bottles. This year the foundation will distribute 300,000 bottles. The foundation delivers the water during the 16 hottest weeks of the summer.

Former Model Uses Photography and Water to Help America’s Homeless | Houston, Texas | 11 KHOU Eyewitness News

HOUSTON, TEXAS — A former model is using the images of local veterans to help fight poverty and homelessness.

Elena Davis’ face has graced the cover and pages of some of the world’s top fashion magazines but now she’s behind the lens and the woman behind I Am Waters.

The Houston-based organization delivers bottled water to homeless people across America.

No Respite From Heat For Austin’s Homeless | Austin, Texas | Statesman

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Joe Steve sprawls across a makeshift bed in the woods, motionless and sweating in the midday heat. It’s 100 degrees, and the 24-year-old homeless man is trying to rest in a shady of a patch of woods off Barton Springs Road. His cheeks are flushed, his nose sunburned. He has no water, no fresh clothes and no desire move right now. “I walk around and sweat most of the time,” Steve said. “It’s way too hot to live out here.”

HPD’s Homeless Outreach Team | I Am Waters Salutes You

I Am Waters is proud to announce our partnership with HPD’s Homeless Outreach Team, founded and operated by Officers, Giraldo, Terry and Wick. Their mission is to make a human connection built on mutual trust and to offer support to our city’s homeless by providing assistance with housing; obtaining I.D’s; and step-by-step guidance, and help, with the obstacles that block the path for so many. They have facilitated housing for numerous homeless individuals in the short time they have been in operation.