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“The trainees are really enjoying their training …”
Tools for Self Reliance is helping young people in Malawi get the skills they need to start up in business.
Using tools supplied by Tools for Self Reliance and locally available materials students in Ghana have come up with some innovative new products.
Hawa Koroma contracted polio aged three. This is her story …
The Hope House Skills Training Centre has become a haven for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Pro-Link pilot internet project in Ghana to give under-represented people a voice.
One of the blacksmithing workshops supported by Tools for Self Reliance has come up with an environmentally friendly solution to the growing problem of deforestation in Africa.
Tools for Self Reliance is giving skilled workers in Kilimanjaro a helping hand.
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.
The Mabaale Metalwork and Mechanics group started up with ten members and an auto-mechanics kit from Tools for Self Reliance in 2001.
Uganda Rural Development and Training recently visited the Goodwill Tailoring Group, which received tools from Tools for Self Reliance in October 2002.
When the Ugandan Rural Development and Training organisation recently visited an artisan enterprise in Kakumiro Kibaale distrist, they were amazed at what they found.
Tools for Self Reliance sent Kyarwakya United Carpentry a small joinery kit in 2006, which has helped the group achieve their phenomenal growth of 500% since the group began.
This family business applied for a tool kit via the Artisan Support Programme in 2003.
The well-established Ngabi Youth Group started in 1989 with 150,000 Ugandan shillings and has built up its capital to 2.2 million Ugandan shillings, or £6400.
A special tool presentation ceremony was held at Maria Yiri Wa in the Upper West Region of Ghana by African partners Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP).
