Tools for Self Reliance
For nearly 30 years, ‘Tools for Self Reliance’ has helped to relieve poverty in Africa by supporting small businesses. With the help of UK volunteers, they fund business skills and other training projects in six African countries. Each year they put tens of thousands of refurbished tools and sewing machines into the hands of people who really need them. They can’t do any of this without us!
They believe that people working and living in their own county are best placed to know about their own situation, and able to decide what is & isn’t useful to them. They don’t have any UK staff in Africa but support local partner organisations which are best placed to work effectively in their own communities. They currently have partners in Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe. The kind of tools they send are - blacksmith, carpentry, engineering & metalworking, bicycle repair, auto-mechanics, electrical and industrial quality power tools and some kinds of sewing machines. If you can help, please see me or visit www.tfsr.org
Audrey Mann