Fields of Life

Through Nicholas Jordan's initiative of Wells of Life, Fields of Life is committed to addressing the vital need of supplying safe, clean drinking water. The provision of water to the communities where we have established schools along with the vulnerable and marginalised groups, especially the women and children, is our primary concern.

We are so grateful to friends from Bangor and Saintfield for helping us drill two wells and to a local business in Belfast for sponsoring twenty wells at a cost of £5,400/ €8,000/ AU$16,000. Drilling has commenced and six wells have been drilled to date. The excitement in the villages is fantastic and here is one report from a community which has a fresh, clean water supply.

"In 2007 we received news that our friends in Fields of Life were going to dig a borehole for our school, Kiti Parents Primary School, and the community. It was the best news as we had never thought of having a borehole because of its high cost, yet we had only one spring well which had dirty brown water. Water has been a big problem in our community. The day the technicians started was joyous and villagers around gathered to witness the event.  It took only one week and four days to have a completed borehole.

On completion people were asking the school staff members as to whether they could have access to the clean water and we assured them that the borehole was for the whole community. Some people were heard saying, ‘It has been a big turning point for our village', others said, ‘We shall never to to fetch the dirty water', others again said, ‘This is a miracle - we cannot believe it'. Some aged people who could not fetch water because of the long distance, now say they are to fetch water themselves.

As I write this, people from almost four villages come to collect water from the borehole. We thank our friends of Fields of Life for the generous spirit they have shown us not only with the borehole but with everything. Special thanks to our friends in Ireland. May God bless them."

David
Headmaster
Kiti Parents Primary School

"My name is Kakaire Ruth. I write to thank fields of life for building for us a school and a borehole. I live just next to the school. my plot of land boarders the school. When the surveyor for the borehole came, the only place where they could find water was in my plot. I refused the borehole to be built on my plot because I thought the school wanted to take away my land. The local authorities convinced me that it was only a small part for the borehole that they wanted. I accepted, the borehole was built and its now the only source of clean and safe water for the school and for the whole village. We had a borehole built by the government in 1980 but this was very far and would always break down.

Thank you fields of life and very one who has worked with you! God bless you."

- Kakaire Ruth