A Warm Welcome to the Tea Leaf Trust Website!
The tea-growing regions of Sri Lanka (mainly the 'Hill' country) are where the majority of the poorest people on the island live. Many people in this region lack the education/training needed for skilled jobs, and therefore have to resort to extremely poorly paid labour-intensive work; mainly picking tea or working as farm labourers cultivating vegetables for local businesses.
The Tea Leaf Trust is committed to providing educational resources for the tea-pluckers (mainly of Tamil Nadu origin) and the poor farmland communities (mainly of Singhalese origin) that border the tea plantations. It is envisaged that these resources will help both of these communities live a better quality of life, reduce poverty and promote integration/strengthen cohesion between these groups.
Donating to the Tea Leaf Trust - sponsor our centre/sponsor a student/sponsor our school events
Sponsor our centre
The initial stages of our two main projects, the Tea Leaf Vision Centre for Professional Development and the Maskeliya Basic English Outreach Project require your generosity, whilst we put into place self-sustaining strategies (please see the sustainability tab under the Fundraising and Sponsorship page, for more information). We are looking for regular donations of £15 a month to keep our vital work going. However, regular donations of whatever you can spare will be gratefully received!
Sponsor our students
As many of our students come from extreme poverty, we are looking for people to sponsor these students. In some of our more extreme cases, student are walking by foot for 20 km a day to attend our school in thin plastic flip flops, because they can't afford the bus and they have only one pair of shoes which they can't afford to replace, should they buckle under the pressure of the poor roads and distance travelled. We are asking for regular donations of £20 to support these students. However, regular donations of whatever you can spare will be gratefully received! To view some of our case studies and see why sponsorship is vital to both our students and their families, please visit our sponsorship page (under the Fundraising and Sponsorship tab).
Sponsor our events
The Tea Leaf Vision Centre Professional Development organise events throughout the year to allow students to practice their English skills and boost their self-esteem. Our sponsorship section, explains more about these events and why they are a vital part of our students' education.
If you would like to sponsor/make a one off donation to any of these events, see below or visit our sponsorship page.
Whatever you can spare, as always is gratefully received by the Tea Leaf Trust, where we continue to be bowled over by your generosity!
Donating to the Tea Leaf Trust
There is a number of ways you can donate to the Tea Leaf Trust. Justgiving allows you to set up regular donations or give one off donations. For regular Centre/student sponsorships or one off donations, please click:
Regular and one-off donations to the Tea Leaf Trust
If you would like to donate to our Centre events, please click:
We also have a donation page on everyclick:
Thank you for your kind donations of which there have been many. Your help is greatly appreciated by the Tea Leaf Trust.
Find out about what we are up to
We now have our centre up and running and have completed our first term! Read all about it in our latest 'School Edition' newsletter
We endeavour to produce newsletters every few months, so you can see what we are up to and how your hard-earned donations are being spent. To read about the opening of our centre and what has been happening in its first term click on the link below. You can access previous newsletters via the newsletter page on our site.