A LETTER FROM OUR CEO
CEO Chad Zibelman celebrates with community members in Burkina Faso during The Sonder Project’ s 10-year anniversary visit.
Dear Sonder Supporters,
2025 marked ten years of The Sonder Project, and the year began exactly where this journey first took root: in Burkina Faso. A decade ago, our founders returned from Burkina Faso with a simple but powerful conviction— do the most good, for the most amount of people, at the most efficient cost. Being back ten years later, standing alongside our local team, visiting partner communities, and witnessing the growth of our clean water, education, and sustainable agriculture programs was humbling and deeply motivating. None of this was inevitable. Every well drilled, every student sponsored, and every farmer growing food with greater security exists because people like you chose to believe in the potential of communities far beyond their own.
Over the past decade, The Sonder Project has grown from funding individual projects to building interconnected programs that support
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