Green Fayre at the Workhouse

We are thrilled to welcome tools for reliance Cymru to the Green Fayre..the organisation restore old tools and implements and makes them available to development projects across the developing world. Here’s a section from their website

Tools for Self Reliance groups collect old and unwanted hand tools; we clean, repair and sharpen them and send tool kits to grass roots community groups in 6 African countries, but mostly Tanzania at  present.

TFSR Cymru is one of 70 TFSR groups in the UK, based in Crickhowell. We are a registered charity, and work towards a more equitable sharing of the world’s resources.

TFSR Cymru are a bunch of over 50 volunteers, men and women aged 14 to 81.  We meet in our fully-equipped workshop where we repair and renovate hand tools in their thousands.  The tools are donated by individuals, or collected by a wide variety of other organisations from across Wales. We have been fairly successful at collecting, but we still have a shortage of certain items, especially anvils and other tools for blacksmiths.

Could you work without tools? In the past 22 years we have sent over 330 tool kits (each valued at over £1,200) to craftsmen and women in rural communities of Africa. Tools mean work, and the chance to shape the future is just as important to a young person in Tanzania or Ghana as in Britain.

Volunteers are always needed to join us in Crickhowell, or at one of the 6 other TFSR groups in Wales. Men or women any age, bring along your skills, or come and learn how to handle a hammer. There’s always plenty to do from cleaning and sharpening tools, to making and packing crates. There is always somebody around to help show you what needs doing.

www.tfsrcymru.org.uk