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.
Make your donation work harder - buy one, get 10 free!
It costs us £15 a month to teach one student from the poor communities in and around Maskeliya.
However, by donating £15 a month, you also provide the education and resources for that one student (with our training and supervision) to go out into their communities and teach ten 7-12 year olds fundamental English language skills throughout the year.
That's works out as:
£1.36
per child,
per month
For more information on this particular project, click on the Community English Programme tab in the 'Our Projects' section. For more detailed information on our other appeals, please see our 'Fundraising and Sponsorship' section.
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
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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 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 our education projects and what has been happening over spring and summer, please read our latest newsletter below. You can access previous newsletters via the newsletter page on our site.