Annual Report and Accounts 2015/16

Excellent Development’s Annual Report and Financial statements from 2015/16. Click here to read and download .

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ViDrate launches First Official Charity Partnership with Excellent Development

Excellent Development are excited to announce that ViDrate have selected our charity as their new and first official charity partner!
Join the giving revolution this Christmas with Advent of Change

Excellent Development is proud to be part of the innovative product line-up from Advent of Change over Christmas 2021.
Have your donations doubled - The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2021

Between November 30th and December 7th we are taking part in The Big Give Christmas Challenge, aiming to raise £100,000 for four sand dams in southeast Kenya; 2 for communities in Ukambani to provide farmers with a lifelong supply of clean water, and 2 in Tsavo National Park to improve access to water for the range of wildlife in the park.
Climate crisis: Save lives and land

Support dryland communities to build sand dams, sustainably manage land and implement a range of environmental protection measures so that they can prevent and reduce land degradation and adapt to climate change.

A brighter future with water

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.
What is a sand dam?
Donate

Please donate what you can to transform lives with sand dams and clean water.
Reversing land degradation and desertification

Conservation of the environment is critical to the economic development of people living in drylands.
1 million sand dams for 0.5 billion people by 2040

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.
The challenge

Find out what are drylands, why they are they are such harsh regions to live, how sand dams are applicable in drylands and what difference they can make to over 40% of the world's land surface.
Our approach

Find out more about Excellent's approach, from working with self-help groups to why we partner we on-ground, local organisations.
Water: A Basic Human Right

There is still a long way to go to ensure that all vulnerable dryland communities have access to what is their basic human right. Any support you are able to provide today will truly make a lasting difference to people’s lives for generations to come.
Watch how sand dams work

Film explaining how sand dams work and their potential impact in the world's drylands
Climate-smart agriculture

It’s astonishing to see what can be achieved through these simple, but highly effective, techniques of climate-smart agriculture.