Crafts and Skills

How to make bread with wheat flour and *yeast and how to add flavours to it.

This book explains how to make a strong *doormat from bottle tops.

This book explains how to make a trap for flies with two plastic bottles. The trap can catch 200 - 300 flies in one day.

How to make doughnuts with flour of cassava

This book explains how to build with bricks and *breeze blocks.

This book explains how to make a *pond for fish. It includes two ways to cover the surface inside a *pond.

This book explains how to dry fruit and vegetables in the heat of the sunshine.

Water from a well is usually pure, but various things can pollute traditional wells. This book explains several ways on how to improve traditional wells.

This book explains how to *preserve fruit. Then it will be available to eat when there is no fresh fruit.

Two simple methods of keeping food cool in hot climates so that it is safe to eat for longer.

This book explains how to put oil on the right places to prevent a bicycle from becoming rusty.

This book explains how to repair and maintain the *tyres of a bicycle.

This book explains how to maintain and replace the *chain on a bicycle.

This book describes two types of brakes for bicycles. It explains how to adjust and maintain the brakes.

This book explains how to make sure that your bicycle is safe and comfortable to ride. It also explains how to make easy repairs.

You can use *breeze blocks to build walls and buildings. This book has instructions on how to make and use *breeze blocks.

This book explains how to make *chutney with fruit that is not ripe.

This book explains a simple way to make *jam from fruit. It includes a recipe for *jam with melon and pineapple.

How to make a simple filter to give clean drinking water with materials you can find locally.

This book has advice on how to make two carts for a bicycle: a *box cart and a *flatbed cart.

This book explains how to make a drink from *soya and how to fry *soya to make a type of bread.

This book explains how to make pom-poms for use to decorate with. Pom-poms have a shape like a ball.

How to make a simple trap for rats and mice with a bucket, wire, water, a cob of corn and some butter from nuts.

This book explains how to make bricks from clay. It includes instructions on how to build a *kiln and bake the bricks in it.

How to make your own soap – an easy recipe.

This book contains advice for individuals and communities about different ways to collect and store *rainwater.

This book explains how to smoke fish in order to keep it for a few days.

This book explains how to use a sewing machine. It gives basic advice on how to adjust its parts and how to maintain the machine.

This book describes the basic details of how to *crochet.

This book tells you how to learn to knit.

This book explains how to prepare and use *bamboo to make pipes for water. It also advises how to maintain the pipes of *bamboo.

Advice on how to protect buildings from lightning and what people can do for safety during a bad storm.

This book explains how to make simple stitches, hems, seams and holes for buttons.

This book explains an easy way to have water for use in your home. You can do this with a large plastic container that has a hollow handle.

This book explains how to make ovens with old drums that contained oil.

How to make a simple tool for scraping the scales off a fish before you cook it.

How to build useful walls that you can decorate with flowers, *herbs and vegetables.