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This is Excellent - summer 2019

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Find out how sand dams are transforming lives with stories from all corners of our work, including Kenya, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and our new programme in Malawi. Click here to download.

Published: 30th June, 2018

Author: Dwain Lucktung

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This is Excellent - July 2018

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This month, four dryland communities supported by Excellent (and your donations) share their unique perspectives on how sand dams and clean water have transformed their lives - plus find out where your donations could go, and how to leave a legacy. Click here to download

Published: 1st July, 2018

Updated: 20th July, 2018

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This is Excellent - January 2018

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This month we share news from our projects in Mozambique, supporter Vaughan Pomeroy tells the story of how he and his late wife decided to make a difference, read about our Chairman's vision for Excellent's future and our Strategy to 2025, and find out how you can get on board our 2018 sand dam expedition! Click here to download

Published: 2nd July, 2018

Updated: 20th July, 2018

Author: Dwain Lucktung

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This is Excellent - January 2017

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This month we share news from our projects northern Kenya, a farmer from Zimbabwe tells how a sand dam has brought her community together, go behind the scenes with our sand dam foreman (working on ground with the communities every day), and hear from two supporters who took on our annual sand dam expedition in Kenya. Click here to download

Published: 3rd July, 2018

Updated: 20th July, 2018

Author: Dwain Lucktung

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This is Excellent - Summer 2016

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This month we share news from our development in southern Africa (Zimbabwe and Mozambique), an empowered community farmer, mother and role model shares her story, we hear from an epic supporter who ran the London Marathon, and one of our partners explains how monitoring and evaluation shapes everything we do. Click here to download

Published: 4th July, 2018

Updated: 20th July, 2018

Author: Dwain Lucktung

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This is Excellent - Autumn 2015

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In our latest brochure for you - our supporters, we share news from our development in northern Kenya, an inspiring story about a proud parent who's changing the future of her children thanks to sand dams, a sand dam expeditioner tells all, and one Excellent worker gives you the inside story. Enjoy! Click here to download

Published: 5th July, 2018

Author: Dwain Lucktung

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This is Excellent - Spring 2014

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The latest edition of our supporter brochure features news of our work with the UN Development Programme in Swaziland, a chat with our Programme Manager Christine Whinney, how Mary, a self-help group member in Kenya, is breaking from tradition, and one Excellent supporter's pilgrimage to fundraise for sand dams. Click here to download

Published: 6th July, 2018

Author: Dwain Lucktung

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This is Excellent - Autumn 2013

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Our supporters are creating hope and opportunity for dryland families. Nothing we do would be possible without them. In this, the first edition of our new brochure, produced entirely in-house to reduce costs, we share the impacts of their support for some of the world's poorest people, and celebrate the fantastic ways people get involved to make it all happen. Click here to download

Published: 7th July, 2018

Author: Dwain Lucktung

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Latest

  • Empower families to feed themselves

    Empower families to feed themselves

    We need your help so that we can continue to support more dryland communities to build sand dams and implement climate-smart farming, providing vital food and water supplies to vulnerable families.

  • £83,443 raised in Big Give Christmas Challenge 2020!

    £83,443 raised in Big Give Christmas Challenge 2020!

    In this year's Big Give Christmas Challenge you helped us raise over £80,000 to build two sand dams and implement a range of environmental protection measures in southern Zimbabwe.

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

    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

    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.

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  • What is a sand dam?

    What is a sand dam?

  • 1 million sand dams for 0.5 billion people by 2040

    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

    Donate

    Please donate what you can to transform lives with sand dams and clean water.

  • Zimbabwe (Partner: Dabane Trust)

    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

    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

    Watch how sand dams work

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

  • The challenge

    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

    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

    Working together with Rotary

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