Tools for Self Reliance

Mon, Feb 5th 2024 at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm



Video of the presentation





View a powerpoint presentation about TFSR on youtube. Just klick on this link: 


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyXrfbIXNYw



Declutter Your Man Cave

 

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Give a man a fishing net and teach him how to use it and you feed him for a lifetime” This well known saying could never be more relevant than when used to describe the work carried out by Tools For Self Reliance

Which is why Chelwood Bridge Rotary Club have chosen the “Tools For Self Reliance Cymru” (TFSR) Charity as one of its  International projects. Our aim is to collect items for TFSR and transport them to their workshop for maintenance before they ship them to Tanzania. 


This is a great opportunity for you to recycle those unwanted tools that are taking up space in your garage and put them into the hands of people who will once again put them to use and by doing so help change their lives.


Although all tools and Sewing machines are welcome, the information below given to us by TFSR is a guide and lists items most useful to those they send the items to. 


Sewing machines, preferably older solid machines like the black Singers (all types)

Industrial sewing machines

Overlockers 

What we really do not need are the really cheap plastic cased ones.

Anvils

Leather working tools

Good quality planes, vices,  chisels

Electrical tools and meters

Metric spanners

Any tools made of brass, or brass items as they sell well in the UK at events and help fund the cost of sending the other tools.

Copper and brass scrap is also valuable, including electric motors.

Electric tools can be useful, but preferably the better makes, not the cheap diy ranges which do not last in a busy workshop.

Machinery can be valuable, but please ask first.


Collection Date;  Information will be announced shortly.


 View a powerpoint presentation about TFSR on youtube. Just klick on this link: 


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyXrfbIXNYw




TOOLS FOR SELF RELIANCE CYMRU collect old and unwanted hand tools and sewing machines. They send them in 20ft shipping containers at least once a year to their workshop in Kalwande, Tanzania (up in the Lake Zone) where they are refurbished, ready to send to grass roots community groups where they will find a whole new way to improve livelihoods. They presently concentrate their efforts in Tanzania where they work with their new partner: Kalwande Vocational Training Centre. Together they work towards a more equitable sharing of the world’s resources. 

Chelwood Bridge Rotary Club have decided to support this worthwhile charity and will very shortly be collecting tools donated by club members  individuals and  organisations in our area for transportation to the workshop of TOOLS FOR SELF RELIANCE CYMRU,  who although very successful at collecting  still have a shortage of certain items, especially tools for blacksmiths.  

In the past 35 years they have sent more than a million tools including over a thousand sewing machines to craftsmen and women in rural communities of Africa. Tools mean work, and the chance to shape their future. Join them in any way you 





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