NEW: Buy TOOLS online
You can now purchase our Fair Trade Tools online. All profits from selling these tools go towards our project which provides training to blacksmiths groups within Lake Zone, Tanzania. They are taught new skills on the forge, better hardening and finishing techniques, and helped with marketing their products. Carpentry groups also receive training in maintaining their tools. This is...
Read MoreJoint Project with SIDO Mwanza – More Tools for Tanzania
The latest team in the Mwanza workshop The Mwanza Workshop and has been up and running since June 2005. The two Tanzanian workers Saidi and Vivienne are turning out tool kits for artisan groups in Lake Zone, refurbishing over 200 kits a year, about four times the output of our Crickhowell workshop. Saidi has been out and about in Mwanza Region, carrying out training for some blacksmiths...
Read MoreMore Tools sent…
Mark lifts 15 tonnes with only a little help from the crane- September 2009 Our forth container of tool kits and unrefurbishd tools was sent to Tanzania in September 2009. Now almost all the tools have been refurbished and distributed to groups in Laze Zone. We are about to send Container No 5. Container No 3 loading and ready to go – Oct...
Read MoreLinking TFSR Cymru in Wales & SIDO in Mwanza, Tanzania
Loading the container - it took far longer than we thought Over the past 26 years TFSR Cymru has sent more than 500 kits of tools (35,000 refurbished tools) to blacksmiths, carpenters, tailors and other artisan groups throughout Africa. We have become quite successful at collecting hand tools from across Wales; they now arrive at our workshop in Crickhowell faster than we can refurbish them. In...
Read More17 tonnes and holding over 16,000 tools
In February 2005 we sent off the container, weighing 17 tonnes and holding over 16,000 tools and pieces of equipment. It has passed through Dar es Salaam, and is at last in Mwanza. Now SIDO staff have turned that load into a fully functioning tool-refurbishing workshop – only two staff at present – soon to be four. The tool kits we sent have been distributed and tool requests from...
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