NEWS and EVENTS

Our Sewing Machine Workshop has now re-opened  

Volunteers needed for our new Wednesday and Friday sessions

10am - 1pm  -   Come along and find out more ...

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We will be selling TOOLS at ...

Glastonbury Festival, Green Futures Field

26th - 29th June

Pandy Show - nr Abergavenny

29th June

Riverside Festival - Cardiff

9th August

Green Man Festival  - Crickhowell

15th - 17th August

Abergavenny Food Festival

20th - 21st September

Brecon Farmers Market on the 2nd Sat in the month

Llangynidir Farmer's Market - last Saturday in the month

and from our Workshop in Crickhowell

WORKSHOP OPENING HOURS

Wednesday to Fridays 10am - 2pm

Saturdays 10.30am - 12.30pm

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Joint Project with SIDO Mwanza

"More Tools for Tanzania"

Our second container arrived in Mwanza in June 2007

We are already planning the next one - nearly ready to go now!

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. A year ago they were joined by Matokeo Owden, who is now managing the workshop.  Saidi has been out and about in Mwanza Region, carrying out training for some blacksmiths groups.  He has been training them to make tools for us to sell here in Wales such as draw knives, as well as improving the finishing of tools for sale to Tanzanians. 

We are now working on kits for Tanga - a Region of Tanzania that hasn't received support from TFSR before. 

Have a look at our map of Tanzania.

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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 Lake Zone are now being directed straight to the workshop. They can now turn round a request in less than a month, which previously took us up to a year.

We are now fund-raising to support this project over the next two years. 

Read More about the Project

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