# @sonder_project on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C0RhpiJogYV
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/10162993-sonder-project-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/048be02c90.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-11-30T14:43:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** TheSonderProject (@Sonder_Project) — https://gondola.cc/Sonder_Project

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Introducing our first comprehensive solar-powered clean water system installed at a school! ☀️💧

At the Chayamba Secondary School in Malawi, accessing clean water had always been a challenge for the 600+ students and their teachers, disrupting academic life at this boarding school where we also sponsor 13 students. 

Severe limitations in the public water supply and an antiquated, unclean shallow backup well were causing issues with health, hygiene, and food preparation, putting everyone on the premises at risk. 

In the words of the student council president, Chifuniro, “Imagine you are in class under sweltering temperatures and you have not taken a bath and there is no water to drink. When meals are ready, you would eat without washing hands.”

The headmaster of Chayamba, Rogers Banda, told us that when he first explained to The Sonder Project about the poor water conditions at his school, he didn’t expect much to come of it. He had heard lots of promises in the past from NGOs that never materialized. 

Yet here we stand, just one year after our first discussion with Headmaster Banda, inaugurating a new water system that will pump clean water to Chayamba's dormitories, kitchen, bathrooms, and various other parts of the school grounds using primarily renewable energy. The students at the ceremony were absolutely ecstatic! 

Immense kudos go to our Malawi Country Director Belia, and her dedicated team, for following up and following through to achieve this incredible milestone! We are excited to monitor the impact of this new system and to leverage the learnings for more school water projects in Malawi and Burkina Faso!

Contribute to The Sonder Project today to help #UnwrapPotential for students who are being held back from their learning due to unclean and unsafe water.  LINK IN BIO.

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