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Supporter newsletters

Free to download Sand Dams Worldwide (formerly Excellent Development) supporter brochures.

Restore Rebuild Regreen - 2025

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Enjoy reading new stories from sand dam, climate-smart agriculture and environmental conservation projects supported by Sand Dams Worldwide, and find out how you can support more vulnerable dryland communities to restore degraded land, rebuild their livelihoods and regreen their local environment. Click here to download.

Published: 28th June, 2018

Updated: 24th March, 2025

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Restore Rebuild Regreen - January 2023

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Community members from Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia supported by Sand Dams Worldwide share how sand dams, clean water and climate-smart agriculture have enabled them to restore degraded land, rebuild their own livelihoods and regreen local environments. Click here to download.

Published: 29th June, 2018

Updated: 8th February, 2023

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Latest

  • How Sand Dams Are Solving Water Scarcity: Podcast with fundsforNGOs

    How Sand Dams Are Solving Water Scarcity: Podcast with fundsforNGOs

    In an episode of the fundsforNGOs Podcast, Jon Lobb interviews Dwain Lucktung, Communications Manager at Sand Dams Worldwide, about how sand dams work and the impact of sand dam projects in drylands.

  • February 2026 sand dam expedition with Koy Clothing

    February 2026 sand dam expedition with Koy Clothing

    In February 2026, a group of volunteers teamed up with Sand Dams Worldwide, Koy Clothing and our local partner, Africa Sand Dam Foundation to support a community in Kenya to build a sand dam. The sand dam was funded by Koy Clothing and their wonderful customers, and will go on to provide the community with a local lifelong supply of clean water.

  • £22,304.97 raised in our 2026 Big Give Earth Raise campaign. Thank you!

    £22,304.97 raised in our 2026 Big Give Earth Raise campaign. Thank you!

    Sand Dams Worldwide is took part in the Big Give’s 2026 Earth Raise campaign (formerly the Green Match Fund), which offered supporters of participating charities the opportunity to have their donations doubled for just seven days. Over £22,000 was raised which will go towards a sand dam project in Tanzania.

  • Sand dams: empowering women and girls

    Sand dams: empowering women and girls

    Please donate what you can to help empower more vulnerable women and girls living in drylands (like Kenyan farmer Martha and her daughter, Faith) to access clean water with sand dams and transform their own lives.

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  • We support communities to build sustainable sand dams in some of the poorest, drought-stricken regions across our world.

    We support communities to build sustainable sand dams in some of the poorest, drought-stricken regions across our world.

  • What is a sand dam?

    What is a sand dam?

  • Donate

    Donate

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

  • 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

  • Reversing land degradation and desertification

    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 2050

    1 million sand dams for 0.5 billion people by 2050

    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

    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.

  • Act Now: Tackle Food Crisis With Sand Dams

    Act Now: Tackle Food Crisis With Sand Dams

    Support dryland communities to overcome food shortages, and ensure they can grow enough food to eat and sell. It all starts with ensuring they have access to water. That’s where sand dams come in.

  • 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.

  • Our approach

    Our approach

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

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