Workaid
United Kingdom
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Workaid is a registered charity set up in 1986. We collect donated tools and equipment from all over the UK through a network of 91 area organisers. The items are refurbished by a team of around 170 volunteers at our workshop in Chesham, then packed and shipped to approved training projects, mostly in East Africa. Refurbished equipment is sent to a wide range of training and employment-generating schemes run by schools, polytechnics, churches, women's groups, and self-help groups for disabled people, HIV/AIDS sufferers and refugees. Hand tools are used to teach skilled trades such as carpentry, masonry, car maintenance and leatherwork. Sewing and knitting machines enable women to set up small businesses at home and typewriters are used to teach secretarial skills. We also supply horticultural tools to small-scale farming projects.
