We'd like to remind everyone that our online shops are still open. We have some beautiful Greenwood tools, including drawknives and billhooks, in our online shop as well as many vintage and classic tools available on eBay. You may find some delays in shipments due to the limited access to the workshop we have as the building [...]
Here are a couple of pictures of the amazing process of getting this huge timber replaced. We'll be posting more images of the restructuring as the next few weeks progress. We're lucky to have volunteers with the skill, bravery (and energy) to get the job done!
We mentioned in a previous post that we would be undertaking work in our Crickhowell workshop to allow us to continue our work there while protecting our volunteers and staff. We're very excited to report that the work has begun. This massive beam had to be replaced but it is a wonderfully eccentric piece of wood. [...]
We've recently received some face coverings to help everyone be safe and compliant with the new rules. These lovely masks are made by Tunaweza in Mwanza. They are washable and are double thickness cotton. Tunaweza is a vocational training centre for youngsters with a disability in Mwanza, on the south shore of Lake Victoria in Tanzania. Tunaweza means [...]
The Tools Workshop is now closed until further notice. We will be carrying out a major refurbishment of the workshop in the new year We may be able to offer a Click and Collect service for tools in January. Please contact us before arriving. Wishing all our volunteers, friends, supporters, partners, and customers a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a PRODUCTIVE [...]
I wanted to quit tailoring but after this seminar I will concentrate on it! I am Rebecca Masikini a mother of 4 children, 2 boys and 2 girls. I began this tailoring business since 2000 after a friend of mine taught me how to sew. By then I had only one butter fly machine given to me my [...]
WELCOME to our tiny TOOLS EMPORIUM An Aladdins Cave of Quality Used Tools ZOOM in on our tools:- This year we have lost the income we receive from all the events we normally attend. To help make up for this we have installed a Christmas Gifts Table in our workshop and re-stocked our tiny TOOLS Emporium [...]
WELCOME, KARIBU SANA to all our new supporters To all those who have signed up since our last newsletter Keeping Them Singers Singing - Training continues in Tanzania . . Amina Msaghaa (left) is the co-ordinator of the Mufunsi Women's group, and Agnes Yesaya is the regional manager for Singida. Between [...]
Our teacher is now multi-skilled & multi-purpose Magdalena Alex is a resident at Kirumba area in Mwanza township. She has been a tailor for five years, owning three sewing machines. She is among the project beneficiaries who has accessed maintenance services from one of the fundis trained by the TFSR CYMRU project.* When visited by the Project Officer, [...]
Our shop is open again from this week. Click for our OPEN TIMES Just in are these beautiful Fair Trade Tools from Tanzania You can buy HERE
Sat 10th October, 10 to 12 am, "The SEED AND PLANT SHARE" By the front entrance of Monmouth Comprehensive School, The Burgage, NP25 3DP Our First Event for 7 months . . . Our year has turned out very different from usual. BUT our Tools shop is now open for sales and repairs. Monday to Friday: 9.30 [...]
For the past 15 years we have been running a regular sewing machine repair workshop in Crickhowell and lately in Abergavenny. Over 1600 machines have been restored to their former glory to date; hand and treadle machines, plus electric zig zag and embroidery machines. Sadly, because of the Corona Virus Pandemic we have had to close the workshop [...]
Opening times for TOOL SALES, TOOL REPAIRS and dropping off DONATIONS Monday to Friday: 9.30 am to 3.30 pm Saturday: 10 am to 1 pm How to contact or find us
Zakaria is a teacher by profession but he is now also self-employed. He was one of the trainees in the sewing machine maintenance course in Mwanza, Tanzania, recently run by Tools for Self Reliance Cymru. The TFSR Cymru Project Officer Michael Kimaryo, met him and had some informal talks. This is what Zakaria had to say:- ‘My name [...]
TOO MUCH OF MY MONEY HAS GONE TO FUNDIS! NOW I CAN FIX ANY PROBLEM IN MY MACHINE I am called Pendo Mchele. I live in Nyakato village in Geita region. I am 30 years old and a mother of one child. Currently I am still staying with my parents and my father Jackson, as you know, is [...]
IT IS A TRAINING WHICH HAS ADDED A LOT OF NEW KNOWLEDGE TO ME! My name is Awadh Shaban Rashidii, a resident of Sokoni steet in Igoma ward*. I have a wife and four children, three daughters and a son. I am 42 years of age. I work as an independent tailor and I have been in this [...]
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