NEWS and EVENTS

COMING SOON - FAIR TRADE TOOLS FROM TANZANIA

see tools for sale page

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.

Mark lifts 15 tonnes with only a little help from the crane- September 2009

Container No 3 loading and ready to go - Oct 2008

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We will be selling TOOLS at:

Garden Festival - Much Marcle - June 12th - 13th

Glastonbury Festival - Green Futures Field -June 23rd - 27th

Rhayader Green Fair - July 10th

Green Man Festival- Crickhowell - Aug 19th - 22nd

Abergavenny Food Festival - Sep 18th - 19th

Wales World Trade Fair - Brecon Oct 2nd

Wales World Trade Fair - Abergavenny - Oct 3rd

+ lots more events . . .

Brecon Farmers Market on the 2nd Sat in the month

Llangynidr Farmer's Market - last Saturday in the month

and from our Workshop in Crickhowell - duing open hours

This year we were also at:

Smallholders Show - Builth Wells

Seedy Saturday Hereford, Seedy Saturday Carmarthen,

Seedy Sunday Machynlleth, Seedy Sunday Abergavenny

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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"

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 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.  They have recently been joined by Sunday who sharpens saws - lots of them.

We are now packing sewing kits for Singida and Tanga

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 actively fund-raising to support this project over the next six years. 

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