• Tools for Self Reliance (TFSR) refurbishes durable-quality hand tools for delivery to African artisans. This enables the local people to make better quality products and tools and increase their earnings.

• Local partners operate training workshops to enable men and women to develop businesses and earn a living using the delivered tools.

• Tools supplied to blacksmiths enable them to make new tools locally. Apprentices learn practical skills and increase their income potential. Many trainees subsequently train others in a multiplier effect.

• TFSR operates with astonishing support from over 700 UK volunteers who collect and refurbish the tools for shipment to Africa.

• TFSR targets low development countries: Uganda is 154th, Zambia is 165th, Tanzania is 159th, Ghana is 135th, Malawi is 164th and Sierra Leone is a lowly 177th out of 177 on the UN HDR 2007 Index.

• As a mature charity of 27 years, Tools for Self Reliance has a long history of activities and celebrates having 128 volunteers with over 10 years of service.

• Tool recipients and training workshop participants report generating increased income. 50% now having sufficient to be able to send their children to school.