Training and accreditation

Join us on a sand dam learning visit

Excellent Development, alongside our partners the Africa Sand Dam Foundation (ASDF), host annual learning visits in southeast Kenya. Read more

Abbi Fry's Sand Dam page

An excellent opportunity to support a community
Sand Dam Kenya 2020

In Sept 2020 I'll be joining a team of colleagues to build a Sand Dam in rural Kenya. I'm raising funds for the construction materials of the dam and for agricultural support for the local community.
Jordan Maguire - Kenyan Sand Dam

I am fundraising to make money for the 2020 Kenyan Sand Dam Expedition in which Barclays will travel to Kenya to help support people in rural drylands to build sand dams, which provide safe water for life for as little as £10 per person.
Emma Isabelle - Sand Dam

What is a sand dam?
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.
Donate

Please donate what you can to transform lives with sand dams and clean water.
Zimbabwe (Partner: Dabane Trust)

Dabane Trust and Excellent are working together with rural communities in the semi-arid areas of Zimbabwe to develop simple, appropriate and sustainable water abstraction and food production systems.
Sand dam manual

For everything you need to know about building sand dams, click here to read (and download for free!), Sand Dams: A Practical & Technical Manual.
Watch how sand dams work

Film explaining how sand dams work and their potential impact in the world's 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.
Job opportunities
September 2018 sand dam expedition with Barclays Isle of Man

Barclays Isle of Man volunteers and community members share highlights from the construction of a sand dam they worked together to build in southeast Kenya in September 2018.
Working together with Rotary