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About our expeditions

Join our 2022 expedition from September 10th-20th

Sand Dams Worldwide offers a range of expeditions where you can get involved in building a sand dam. It's hard work - but there's a job to suit every ability, and what better way to learn about the miracle of sand dams than to go and build one yourself?

What and where?

On an expedition with Sand Dams Worldwide, you’ll stay in a small Kenyan town, learn about people's daily life, their challenges and hopes. You’ll join them in building a sand dam and see for yourself just how it’s done and what it means. Your efforts in supporting the build of a sand dam (providing nearby lifelong access to water to the community) will be rewarded with an experience that will stay with you for the rest of your life and make a real difference for a rural community in Kenya.

Most travellers to Kenya don't get the chance to take part in a trip like this. So, whether you're looking for a gap year challenge, a break with a difference, a different way to donate, or a way to get your company involved - an expedition could be just the thing for you.

To find out more, read our expedition FAQs, or email [email protected] if you're interested in joining our next expedition.

February 2020 sand dam expedition - hear from the volunteers!

February 2020 sand dam expedition - hear from the volunteers!

Hear from the Sand Dams Worldwide volunteers who worked together to support the Muka self-help group build a sand dam. Read more

Published: 13th April, 2020

Updated: 21st March, 2022

Author: Dwain Lucktung

September 2019 sand dam expedition with Jersey Overseas Aid

September 2019 sand dam expedition with Jersey Overseas Aid

Jersey Overseas Aid volunteers and community members share highlights from the construction of a sand dam they worked together to build in southeast Kenya in September 2019. Read more

Published: 23rd October, 2019

Updated: 21st March, 2022

Author: Dwain Lucktung

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. Read more

Published: 24th October, 2018

Updated: 21st March, 2022

Author: Dwain Lucktung

July 2018 sand dam expedition - hear from the volunteers and the community!

July 2018 sand dam expedition - hear from the volunteers and the community!

Hear from the Sand Dams Worldwide volunteers and community members who worked together to build a sand dam in southeast Kenya in July 2018. Read more

Published: 23rd August, 2018

Updated: 21st March, 2022

Author: Dwain Lucktung

Sand Dams Worldwide expedition FAQs

Sand Dams Worldwide expedition FAQs

Here are some of the most common questions about our sand dam expeditions. And we've done our best to answer them for you! Read more

Published: 1st March, 2018

Updated: 27th April, 2022

Author: Dwain Lucktung

A week to remember - sand dam expedition 2014

In 2014, nine supporters travelled out to Kenya to help the Athiani Farmers' self-help group build a sand dam. Read more

Published: 2nd March, 2014

Updated: 21st March, 2022

Author: Dwain Lucktung

“I was really proud of what we achieved”

“I was really proud of what we achieved”

In May 2013, a group of volunteers travelled to Kenya to help build a sand dam with the Mutethya self-help group. The expedition was organised in partnership with TRAIN, a youth work charity that supports vulnerable young people in the UK. Read more

Published: 1st March, 2014

Updated: 21st March, 2022

Author: Dwain Lucktung

Sand Dams Worldwide expedition with Quest Overseas

In this film, find out what happened when we teamed up with ethical adventure travel specialist, Quest Overseas, to support a community to build a sand dam. Quest offers gap year students the opportunity to get hands-on experience of sustainable development. Read more

Published: 1st March, 2014

Updated: 21st March, 2022

Author: Dwain Lucktung

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  • September 2022 sand dam expedition

    September 2022 sand dam expedition

    Sand Dams Worldwide supports communities in drylands around the world to transform their own lives with sand dams and climate-smart agriculture; empowering them to achieve lifelong access to water and food. Please donate to help more vulnerable dryland communities benefit from sand dam projects.

  • Sand dams feature in BBC's Our Changing Planet

    Sand dams feature in BBC's Our Changing Planet

    Sand dams and our partners in southeast Kenya, the Africa Sand Dam Foundation, feature in the BBC's latest documentary series charting the world's most threatened ecosystems and the groundbreaking solutions hoping to bring extraordinary change.

  • Sand dams: Water for life

    Sand dams: Water for life

    We need your support so that we can help vulnerable dryland communities to achieve lifelong water security with sand dams.

  • £22,513.75 raised in the Green Match Fund 2022 - thank you!

    £22,513.75 raised in the Green Match Fund 2022 - thank you!

    The campaign, which ran for seven days only, offered supporters of participating charities the opportunity to have their donations doubled.

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  • What is a sand dam?

    What is a sand dam?

  • 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.

  • Donate

    Donate

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Climate-smart agriculture

    Climate-smart agriculture

    It’s astonishing to see what can be achieved through these simple, but highly effective, techniques of climate-smart agriculture.

  • 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

  • End hunger with sand dams

    End hunger with sand dams

    We need your help so that we can continue to support more vulnerable dryland communities to take part in sand dam and climate-smart agriculture projects, and empower them to end hunger and achieve long-term food security.

  • Improving health and daily lives

    Improving health and daily lives

    Sand dams provide a safer water supply as the water stored below the surface is protected from evaporation, contamination and waterborne diseases.

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