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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 ... ......................................... 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 ......................................... 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.
.......................................... 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
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