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Welcome to Tools for Self Reliance

For nearly 30 years Tools for Self Reliance has helped to relieve poverty in Africa by supporting small businesses and by raising awareness in the UK. With the help of hundreds of dedicated volunteers in the UK we fund business skills and other training projects in six countries in Africa. And each year we put tens of thousands of refurbished tools and sewing machines into the hands of people who really need them. We couldn’t do any of this without you!

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What’s involved?

Help us to help vulnerable women in Ghana to a better life


Further project details

Stories from Africa

Here we highlight how Tools for Self Reliance and its partners have made a difference to people’s lives in some of the poorest countries. This is one of our Stories from Africa.

Lindi artisans to receive tools and training
18 April 2008

Across rural Tanzania there are over 15 million people living in poverty. Tools for Self Reliance is doing what it can to reverse this trend.

Click here to see all the Stories from Africa.

Carlisle’s mission improbable


BBC’s Look North goes under cover

Rotary and us

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