Clarisse Nikiema, and her husband Barthelemy, are subsistence farmers with 6 children living in the Komsnedego community of Burkina Faso. But over the past 15 years, unreliable rains, shifting seasons, and increased use of chemical fertilizers have lessened harvests, degraded soil quality, and reduced incomes. Life became especially stressful as Clarisse and Barthelemy struggled more and more each year to pay school fees for their kids and keep enough food on the table. When The Sonder Project drilled a well in Komsnedego in 2018, a plan was made to support the local farmers with a solar-irrigated, community farm resilient to the unreliable climate. Clarisse suddenly could see a light at the end of the tunnel, and volunteered to support the farm on Day 1, even being nominated as the farm’s secretary. With the changes brought to the farm in the past year including a new water catchment system, and individualized land plots, Clarisse has seen the greatest economic impact of the...