In the Western world, access to clean water is pretty much a given. But for more than a billion people around the world, it’s not so easy, according to Wells of Life’s Nicholas Jordan.
Jordan spoke to FSHA students at the CAM Assembly on Wednesday, January 16, about the nonprofit organization of which he’s co-founder and president. Born in Ireland, Jordan immigrated to the United States in the 1980s and had a successful career in real estate in the years before traveling to Uganda to help build schools in that impoverished nation. It was during that trip that he witnessed not only how contaminated water led to disease and death, but also that the women and girls in any particular village sacrificed their education and livelihood to efforts to procure water every single day.
Wells of Life aims to ease those conditions by building 1,000 water wells over the course of 10 years in East African nations like Uganda. Jordan spoke about his efforts to raise funds in $6 increments — each well costs $6,000 to build, so 1,000 $6 donations will cover one well — and showed a video highlighting the organization. At the conclusion of the assembly, CAM president Amanda Furlong ’13 presented Jordan with donations from the student body.
For more information, visit wellsoflife.org.
