Welcome to Tools for Self Reliance

Tools for Self Reliance helps to relieve poverty in Africa by supporting small businesses and by raising awareness in the UK. We’ve been supporting our partners in Africa for 30 years. 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!

Sponsor one of our projects

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.

Click here to see all the Stories from Africa.

Carlisle’s mission improbable

BBC’s Look North goes under cover

Rotary and us