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Sand Dam

The Club raised £10,000 for a Sand Dam which has now been completed at Ngomeni village, in Kenya's Eastern Province. The village is home to 413 people, but the dam also serves the people of the wider area of Invinga Nzia a further 2,870 people.

Sand Dam diagram

This project was completed thanks to the untiring efforts of the Club's International Chair Bill Wyllie.  The diagram above shows the principle of the Dam which provides clean drinking water to a community that had been totally without.  

Previously, any water coming from rivers would evaporate in the heat, but the creation of a Sand Dam stores the water in the dam, preventing evaporation and also filters the water, making it drinkable.

Bill says,  “Clean water for 3,383 seems to me to be a happy outcome”

Thanks Bill for your vision on this project and to all those club members and friends who supported the fund raising.

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