Support communities like the Ilengeni self-help group in Kenya (pictured) to build sand dams and transform their own lives with lifelong access to water that will ensure no one is left behind. Read more
Regular donations provide tools, materials and ongoing guidance and support. They enable self-help groups to build a series of sand dams and boost their farming, bringing an abundance of food and water to their families, transforming lives for generations to come. Read more
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Excellent caught up with the Kyamukulu self-help group, to discuss their new project, and what it means to be part of the 1 million people that Excellent has supported to access to clean water for life. Read more
Film explaining how sand dams work and their potential impact in the world's drylands
From walking for hours to collect dirty water, to having lifelong nearby access to clean water - that is the kind of transformational impact sand dams can provide.
After a sand dam project was completed in the Wiriamo community in Mozambique, our partner, the Christian Council of Mozambique, caught up with a local farmer to find out more about the project's impact on her life.
Programmes Officer, Callum Sheehan, looks at various sand dam success stories as Excellent Development reaches the milestone of enabling 1,000 sand dams in drylands.
Countries we've worked in
Terraces dug
Kenyan shillings made by self-help groups
Number of school water tanks
Please donate what you can to transform lives with sand dams and clean water.
In 2015 Excellent and our partners conducted a survey into how the overall quality of life can improve during the time that communities are engaged with sand dam project work. Here are the findings. Read more
Read about our plan to directly support other organisations to build sand dams, in turn, realising our vision to support millions of the world’s poorest people by helping them to transform their own lives through water and soil conservation in drylands. Read more