We have lots of information available about the tools we send and how to refurbish them to the standards required.

Tools we need

We send a wide range of tools to our partners in Africa but there are certain tools we don’t send. Tools We Need provides further details.

Take a look at our pictorial guide which shows all the tools we supply to projects in Africa (about 380 tools in all), in alphabetical order. Generally if it’s not in our Pictionary, we don’t need it!

Tool sorting

Watch our video (below) on how to select the right tools.

Tool refurbishing

Read our guide to tool refurbishing standards.

We also have a number of refurbishing sheets which offer further advice on refurbishing specific tools.

Making boxes for toolkits

Read the notes on box making contained in our guide to tool refurbishing standards.

Sewing machine refurbishing manual

The Sewing machine manual is a modular manual designed to help in refurbishing sewing machines. New modules will be added as they are completed. We recommend you start off by reading the whole of Section 1. You can then dip into other modules for further information as required.