Excellent Development - Excellent Water Relief, Kenya
TRAID is working with Excellent Development to support its work to enable communities in Kenya to access clean water benefiting food production, health and incomes.
In October 2007, TRAID donated £34,016 to the Excellent Water Relief Project to build sand dams, terrace land and plant tree nurseries in rural Kenya. Sand dams - reinforced concrete walls built across seasonal river beds - are an incredible water saving device capable of holding 2 to 10 million litres of water.
Excellent Development's work in Kenya is progressing rapidly and has been unaffected by the recent civil unrest in other regions of Kenya. This photograph shows the plaque on a secondary school water tank built by the Kithito Kya Kima self help group. It holds 18,500 litres of water and is filled twice yearly during the seasonal rains. The water tank will last over 25 years providing generations of students with clean water for drinking, cooking and hygiene. The Kithito Kya Kima group, and the Utooni Youth Group, have also built three sand dams, extended another and planted 4,942 trees.
More updates as the project progresses.
"We do what the people want rather than what we feel is necessary. We don't go to groups with set goals; we hear what they want and understand their thiking so we can help them move towards their goals." Joshua Mukusya, Excellent Development's Programme Manager
