We need your help so that we can support more dryland communities to gain access to clean water, prevent spreading diseases like COVID-19 and in turn build a brighter future for themselves. 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
Last year we visited Twone Mbee Wasya wa Mavalani self-help group in Kenya just as they began building their second sand dam. Here group members Agnes and John explain what life was like before they had access to clean water.
Meet Mody, an elderly farmer from Zimbabwe who is helping to re-green her farm and local environment thanks to training and support from our partners in the region.
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.
Number of sand dams
People with access to clean water for life
Trees planted
Per person to provide clean water for life
Please donate what you can to transform lives with sand dams and clean water.
CSIS (the Center for Strategic and International Studies) have published a short film about building climate resilience in Kenya with sand dams, featuring our partners, the Africa Sand Dam Foundation. Watch it here! 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