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"I particularly like [Excellent Development's] holistic approach to sustainable development. This is underpinned by their community development approach and innovative sand dam technology, which helps transform semi-arid environments and provide clean water for people and animals. Joshua Mukusya has dedicated the last 28 years of his life to supporting disadvantaged communities, which play an important and active role in all the work - contributing significant manual labour to ensure that their goals are met." Lord Joel Joffe CBE, Chair of Oxfam 1995-2001 and Patron of Excellent Development "Excellent Development is a unique charity that approaches rural development in a multi-disciplinary way with the aim of achieving a win-win situation: enhancement of the natural environment and improved quality of life."
"I'm very happy to endorse Excellent Development and their important work in semi-arid Africa. I have supported them financially over the last two years and am delighted with the progress and results that they have achieved." "I really enjoyed seeing the achievements of the members of the project and admired what they and the project leaders had managed to do with the funding we have provided. It was clearly money well spent!" "What we have done over the years is worked in places where most experts and agencies won't go because the roads aren't there. This is where the real need is, places like Mbukuni where we are working. Mbukuni is a place that isn't easy to get to or get results quickly, so no one wants to work there. The difference is that Excellent Development is prepared and happy to work in these places." "The dams enable trees to grow naturally through raised water tables and a changed micro-climate. The communities are able to grow crops that would not normally be able to grow." "Hydrological surveys on these dams have shown that they significantly increase the water table both above and below the dams. What I have known to be true from seeing landscapes transformed by these dams now has a scientific foundation." "We are working in partnership with Excellent Development in Machakos, Kenya in the provision and preservation of the medicinal products of trees. We are delighted to be involved with an organisation committed to environmental conservation as their main route to grass roots community development." "All over the world deforestation has been linked to the emergence of new diseases and the re-emergence of old but deadly infections such as malaria. Excellent Development's emphasis upon development through agro forestry will provide major health benefits to the communities involved by providing more sustainable development and self-sufficiency in effective traditional medicines."
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