Excellent Development supports communities in rural semi-arid Africa to achieve food and water security through soil and water conservation.
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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!
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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. ...
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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.
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Check out this new video from the Quest team who've just got back from Kenya
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10 Quest Overseas volunteers took just 4 days to complete their first sand dam on this summers WaterRelief Project with Excellent Development. They went on to build a further 3 dams and extend another. ...
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Ex-Quest leader James Docherty and pal Camilo Casas are climbing Mount Kenya for Excellent Development. They are aiming to raise £5,199 - one pound for each metre climbed. Give them a hand - they have picked a tough challenge http://www.excellentdevelopment.com/curr
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This summer's Quest team have just finished building their second sand dam with Munathi community group - great stuff - keep it up!
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So you've had the trip of a lifetime with Quest, what’s next? Never fear, the Quest4Change Blogspot is here! Follow the projects you’ve worked on, see how they’ve changed the lives of the locals, find out about our other projects and stay involved.
Excellent Development Community groups working with Excellent have now dug themselves over 1 million metres of terracing - an incredible feat! Check out their achievements www.excellentdevelopment.com
John Turner I am delighted that I could be a, small, part of the huge success that has become Excellent in every sense of the word. There is still a huge amount to do but be proud of what you have acheived so far.
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The extra support has allowed many groups to make quite staggering achievements in terracing - four of the 59 groups have exceeded their annual target already, and Kitandi Fruit Tree Growers alone have dug over 5km since the beginning of April!
