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Excellent Development is one of the charities supported by the Andrew’s Charitable Trust. Their work involves supporting community groups in rural Kenya to build small scale sand dams, which massively reduce the time taken to collect clean water. Field officers can then support each member of the group to improve the productivity of their farm using sustainable agriculture techniques like terracing land and intercropping. Farmers can then grow enough food to eat and sell.

Patrick Musyimi, founder of one of the self-help groups supported by Excellent, explains - “I have seen a great change from when we started working together as a group, we have improved our local water supply. People used to take four or five hours to collect 20 litres of water. Today we don’t have to queue while collecting water in the dry season. With the construction of the sand dams the water table in the river channel has risen. Other groups in the area are now copying what we do.”

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