Excellent Development supports farmers in Africa to gain access to clean water and grow enough food to eat and sell.
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Excellent Development We are looking for a volunteer to help with trust fundraising - do you know anyone who might be interested? Please share this with them. Thanks!
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Excellent Development Check out this article in The Guardian - it's been a great week for sand dams!
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A 400-year-old water-saving technique that could save millions of people from drought has been voted the best solution to the global water crisis at a public debate in London
Excellent Development What makes our Executive Director give a dam? Read today's Daily Telegraph to find out.
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Simon Maddrell quit a career in big business to found Excellent Development - a charity that helps provide clean water to thousands of Kenyan farmers. Elizabeth Grice talks to him about his work.
Excellent Development See our video on Telegraph TV - how your donations can help farmers in Africa gain access to clean water
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Lack of water is the key problem in much of the developing world.
Excellent Development We have been picked for the Daily Telegraph Christmas Appeal - fantastic! - Share this link with your friends to help spread the good news.
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Lack of water is the key problem in much of the developing world.
Excellent Development Our newsletter is now available! Exciting news for Christmas, rain in Kenya and the effects of climate change in Africa.
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Sustainable rainwater harvesting solutions such as sand dams are a key part of the solution for rural African communities.
Excellent Development Interested in going to Kenya to work alongside community groups to build sand dams? Check out what past volunteers said about their experiences!
Excellent Development Read our latest newsletter here!
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The bad news is that with the onset of climate change droughts like this are predicted to increase in frequency and severity. But the good news is that farmers working with Excellent Development have some ...
Excellent Development It's official - we're a Small Charity, and a Big Achiever!
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Excellent Development is thrilled to have won 'Small Charity, Big Achiever’ at the 2009 Third Sector Excellence Awards.Stephen Cook, editor of the Third Sector magazine, said “The Third Sector team was ...
Simon Maddrell Excellent are the Third Sector Magazine - "Small Charity, Big Achiever" Winners 2009 - and I'm really pleased to say the least! www.excellentdevelopment.com
Excellent Development Our latest newsletter is now available. News about our programmes, the amazing properties of the moringa tree and how communities are benefitting in Kenya!
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The initiative has allowed the 59 community groups working with Excellent Development to make great progress - using rainwater captured in their sand dams, they have readied almost 100,000 tree seedlings to be planted in the next rainy season. ...
Excellent Development Excellent Development is celebrating No Plastic Bag Day on Saturday 12th September. To win one of these handy TreeDuty jute bags just name one of the trees that Excellent Development plants in Kenya. Just post a comment below. 5 lucky people will be picked at random. Good luck!
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Excellent Development is proud to present the TreeDuty jute bag. These attractive and sturdy shoppers are available to buy online (£3.99 +P&P) via clubtogetherUK, or will be yours free when you sign up ...
Excellent Development James and Camilo have started their courageous climb of Mt Kenya, Africa's second highest mountain!
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Two Excellent Development supporters, James Docherty and Camilo Casas, have started their climb of Mt Kenya to raise funds to combat drought in Kenya.Their target is to raise £5,199: equal to £1 for each metre they will be climbing. ...
Excellent Development Our Annual Review is now available online. Read about our work and future plans!
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Excellent Development 2008-9 Annual Review describes our activities over the past year and our plans for the future. It also explains, more clearly than ever, how a sand dam works. It is available to download here. ...
Excellent Development Read our latest newsletter here!
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Two new groups from Machakos joined us last month and they've already established tree nurseries. Overall, dam building is off to a great start with 11 dams now completed and more underway.
