# @sonder_project on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C4gNewpq58R
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11524951-sonder-project-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-03-14T17:37:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** TheSonderProject (@Sonder_Project) — https://gondola.cc/Sonder_Project

## Caption

Tabita Chirwa (40) lives in the remote community of Lundewa in Malawi. Tucked into a dry, hilly area with sparse trees and rough terrain, Lundewa doesn’t have the density of households or the roadways to enable drilling one of our usual deep-water wells. Nevertheless, women in this area struggle with the constant stress of finding clean water for their families. 

Tabita has 5 children ranging in age from 6 to 23 years. Her nearest water source is a shallow natural well about 30 minutes walk through uneven, rocky ground with shifting elevation. But when we visited her, this shallow well could not produce enough water, so Tabita had to walk an extra 30 minutes to an area where she could dig with her hands into the sand until small amounts of water appeared beneath the surface. Then she could gradually scoop water into her bucket. This process could take an hour or more. After that, Tabita walks with a heavy bucket on her head, 60 minutes back, uphill and on treacherous ground. 

For all this effort, Tabita should at least be comfortable that her family will be safe drinking the water, but that’s unfortunately not the case. She tells us that at least twice per week, one of her children got sick. This forced them to miss days of school, and sometimes, required them to visit the hospital, which is distant and expensive. Tabita tells us she has often had to sell chickens to afford her children’s medicine, hurting her family’s income. 

All of this changed when in 2022, The Sonder Project distributed sawyerproducts water filters to over 100 households in Lundewa to help them decontaminate the water they collect. Since then, Tabita tells us joyfully, her children have not been sick with diarrhea or other water-borne diseases! We are so happy that Tabita can finally have some peace of mind after spending so much time and effort collecting water, and that her children can attend school and live their lives without the constant threat of illness.

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#WaterIsHerRight #WaterIsLife #SafeWater #CleanWater #SonderProject #WaterForDevelopment #DrillingWells #WellDrilling #WaterAccess #AccessToWater #WaterFilters #RuralDevelopment

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accesstowater, ruraldevelopment, waterfordevelopment, wateraccess, safewater, drillingwells, cleanwater, welldrilling, waterisherright, waterislife, sonderproject, waterfilters

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