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

Sand dams give the community access a local, reliable water supply for drinking, farming and domestic use. The technology encourages regreening of the environment and increases biodiversity, which are essential if our natural world is to survive. 

With your support, people that have little water, food and limited opportunities can face a new day with renewed optimism, confidence and hope. 

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A cost effective, minimal maintenance way of harvesting rainwater. We have supported over 1.1 million people across 10 countries.

A sand dam is a reinforced concrete wall built across a seasonal sandy river. They are a low cost nature-based solution, designed to harvest rainwater that falls during the rainy season, whilst recharging groundwater and requiring minimal maintenance.

Sand dams turn barren dryland areas into fertile land that can support agriculture and improved biodiversity, providing water, food and income for many families.

A solution for drought-affected communities in Africa?

We think so, and so do the communities that invest their time and labour to build them. It’s a water resource that keeps on giving, season after season, year after year.

Sand dams provide vital drinking water in periods of drought. More than that, communities can also use the resource to restore their degraded land, to rebuild their livelihoods, whilst regreening their landscape. Sign up to our newsletter to find out more.

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While our work often starts with a sand dam, it’s certainly not where it ends. Once water and time are available, a wealth of opportunities arise.

Our local partners also advise communities on improved climate-smart agriculture techniques, such as terracing, developing seed banks and the planting of drought-resistant crops and trees.

This empowers families to grow enough food to eat, store and sell in the face of climate change and drought.

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

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£25 could provide a farmer with drought-resistant seeds, so they can feed and support their family.

£50 could provide a roll of barbed wire to reinforce a sand dam, anchoring it to the bedrock.

£85 could provide 500 seedlings and a spray pump, to protect the trees from insects

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