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

Missing school and education due to COVID-19 and lack of water

Kasangi Simon, a 12-year-old pupil at Nzeluni Primary School, southeast Kenya, shares her experience coping with water shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what difference a school water tank would make.
Kyeni Primary School water tank - a short film by the Africa Sand Dam Foundation

Our partners in southeast Kenya, the Africa Sand Dam Foundation, document the impact of Kyeni Primary School's water tank.
Ethiopia (Partner: Action for Development)

The project with Action for Development will implement four pilot sand dams across four communities in South Omo Zone in southern Ethiopia. The communities will enhance their food security through climate-smart agriculture, while the sand dams will provide year-round access to clean water.
(re)GENERATION documentary series: building sand dams in Kenya

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!

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