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Meet Joyce Mwale, from the community of Jonas in Malawi! At the age of 52, Joyce still shows incredible strength. She doesn’t flinch when walking up the hill from The Sonder Project well to her home with a basin full of water on her head. In fact, she is even smiling. That’s because she knows the clean water she is carrying keeps her family healthy and harmonious. But before the well was drilled, Joyce recalls the immense struggles of sourcing water. Most nights she would leave her family at home at midnight to walk the perilous path to a water hole several kilometers away. It would be 7am before she returned after waiting for hours to collect enough water and competing with other women and even wild animals at the water hole. The water Joyce would bring home was dirty and contaminated, but it would be the only option for her family to drink, wash and bathe with. Her children hated going to school because they couldn’t bathe and their uniforms were never clean. On one occasio...

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