# @sonder_project on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C0jgK6xJqpW
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/10256546-sonder-project-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-12-07T14:12:30.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** TheSonderProject (@Sonder_Project) — https://gondola.cc/Sonder_Project

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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 occasion, the entire family was infected with cholera, putting a huge financial burden on the household. Less income for the family, meant less food and more struggles to pay school fees for her children. Life was torture for Joyce, all because of water.
 
The first day Joyce collected clean water from the new well drilled in her community by The Sonder Project in 2021, she admits that they couldn’t stop drinking it. “My husband bathed 3 times that day,” she laughs. 

Since then, Joyce’s life has transformed from stress to stability. Her children are excited to go to school, and she and her husband have more free time to work on various farms to earn enough money for the household. 

“Our life is more free. As a family, we are much happier.”

This holiday season, help us #UnwrapFamily for more mothers just like Joyce who struggle with the inordinate burden of sourcing water for their families. Click the link in our bio to double your impact this month through our donation matching program!

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