A vocational training centre in northern Uganda is changing lives thanks to Tools for Self Reliance. Over a thousand tools are being used by self-employed builders and carpenters who have returned to Kitgum and Lamwo Districts of northern Uganda after 20 years of civil war.

They are learning new skills which include dry stone walling, building with interlocking stabilised soil blocks, and joinery. And as a consequence Agoro Vocational Institute has seen a flurry of new facilities appear which will benefit future generations of students.

One of two new teaching blocks take shape

Christopher Singer of the British Consultancy Charitable Trust, with whom we are working closely on this project, said:

The quality of tools is massively in advance of others locally available and will contribute to the government request to implement a better standard of living. … Tools for Self Reliance and their volunteers can be assured that they are making a direct contribution to the restoring of humanity in a very difficult post conflict zone.