The tools needed for the Taiga Shield Shelter Project are not elaborate or expensive. This is part of the overall goal of enabling local people to build the homes and other buildings proposed.
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- SHOP TOOLS
- most of these tools are typically found in a woodworking shop
- SITE TOOLS
- protable tools needed to fell trees and prepare them for use in construction
- cordless hand tools needed at the building site
- SHOP TOOLS
Many of the people in Taiga Shield communities already know how to use many of these tools.
If there is a local school, it may well have a shop, and that shop may have most—but probably not all—of these tools. It should be possible to get funding to add any missing tools by using the building projects as on-the-job training.
If there is no woodworking shop in the community, it may be possible to access new training funds and use some of that money to buy the tools.
It may be necessary to bring in some trainers, but the construction methods proposed for Taiga Shield Shelter Projects should not require people to leave their community to get trained.
And the skills local people develop through training for and working on this project will be useful for many other projects in their communities. They will also increase local people’s employment prospects.