# @sonder_project on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqp_C8nK5At
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/21306103-sonder-project-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-04-05T13:23:47.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** TheSonderProject (@Sonder_Project) — https://gondola.cc/Sonder_Project

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(Part 2 / 4) Makilina used to live in another community that already had a drilled well. But when her first husband died in 2013, Makilina remarried and moved with her new husband and their children to Chawa. 

The only issue was that Chawa did not have a well, and most people collected water from the nearby river. Makilina struggled to get used to this new arrangement. 

During the rainy season, water at the river was overflowing but filled with dirt and other pollutants coming from upstream. And during the dry season, the water was inconsistent and difficult to find. Makilina found herself waking up at 2am to go dig holes in the riverbed in order to find water, and then later in the afternoon going to do the same under the hot sun. 

Makilina was incredibly stressed by Chawa’s water situation, and even more so by the fact that she could feel the water she was collecting was not clean compared to the well water she was used to before. She worried constantly about the health of her family, having had a child from her previous marriage die from water-borne disease. 

Makilina knew it was only a matter of time before someone would get very sick again. But she didn’t know that person would be her.

#WaterIsLife #SafeWater #SonderProject #WaterForDevelopment #DrillingWells #WellDrilling #BurkinaFaso #WaterAccess #AccessToWater #CommunityEngagement #CommunityDevelopment #RuralDevelopment #SustainableDevelopment #WomenAndWater #WaterIsHerRight #SonderStory #sonderstories

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burkinafaso, welldrilling, sonderstory, sonderstories, waterisherright, waterislife, sustainabledevelopment, womenandwater, waterfordevelopment, wateraccess, safewater, drillingwells, communitydevelopment, sonderproject, communityengagement, accesstowater, ruraldevelopment

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