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

Northern Rangelands Sand Dam Programme - Project Overview (2015-2019)

A review of Excellent's four-year pilot sand dam programme to increase access to clean water for both people and wildlife in the Northern Rangelands of Kenya.
February 2020 sand dam expedition - hear from the volunteers!

Hear from the Excellent Development volunteers who worked together to support the Muka self-help group build a sand dam.
Barclays Kenya Expedition 2020/21

I am fundraising for this particular charity because I want to contribute to a project that has an obvious and tangible impact on a community and will bring some awareness of the challenges that community faces.
Barclays sand dam expedition 2020/21

Early next year (2021), I will be going to Kenya along with some colleagues to help build a Sand Dam for the some of the world's poorest people to transform their lives with a task we do without a second thought, to receive clean water.

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.
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.
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.
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