Profile

The Tea Leaf Trust is a UK registered charity (charity number 1123427) committed to:

Providing education and vocational training to the poorest communities in the mainly tea growing region of Sri Lanka (known as the hill country)

Promoting ethnic cohesion after 26 years of civil war, through shared educational programmes and resources
A lack of quality education strongly impacts on overall poverty experienced by families working in the tea sector and rural farming communities, enforcing and sustaining the generational cycle of poverty. This ensures a generational dependency on plucking tea and manual cultivation, disempowerment and deprivation of aspiration, all resulting in no opportunity to choose, and the lack of desire to escape

The opportunity to learn will initially target children aged 7-12 and young adults aged 18-24. All will be taught in an environment that is safe and promotes equality and mutual respect.
View MoreView Less

Updates

  • 04 NOV 2017

    Partner Updates from Tea Leaf Trust

    [font=OpenSansRegular, arial, sans-serif]Partner Tea Leaf Trust recently sent us updates, which we'd like to share with you all. [/font] T[font=OpenSansRegular, arial, sans-serif]ea Leaf Trust is a UK registered charity that works in the tea estate areas of Sri Lanka, running two schools for 18 to 24 year olds in Maskeliya and Nuwara Eliya (both in Central Province). They focus on English language and professional development. However, they also do a lot of personal development work developing students’ coping mechanisms and emotional health in the face of complex social issues.[/font] [font=OpenSansRegular, arial, sans-serif]Our partner organization has sent us images that give testimony to the facts of poverty and malnutrition in the tea estates: [/font] [img]http://www.givology.org/images/user/1842_9574096275123651228.png[/img]
  • 04 NOV 2017

    Tea Leaf Trust: Providing Educational Opportunities in the Tea Estates

    [font=OpenSansRegular, arial, sans-serif]Tea Leaf Trust has responded to the problems of poverty, malnutrition, and gender-based violence in the tea estates by providing life-changing opportunities to those who enroll in its schools: [/font] [img]http://www.givology.org/images/user/1842_13239970841464452396.png[/img] [img]http://www.givology.org/images/user/1842_12880667961623005127.png[/img] [img]http://www.givology.org/images/user/1842_14154811430210993452.png[/img] [img]http://www.givology.org/images/user/1842_5594060771695309275.png[/img]
  • 04 NOV 2017

    Tea Leaf Trust: Changing Lives in the Tea Estates

    I imagine many of us have children or nieces and nephews. I’d like to ask you to picture them at school in a class of 20. Out of this number, think about how many live in homes where domestic violence is a regular occurrence – at our school, in any class, in any year this number would be at least 16 out of 20. There are 196 countries in the world. Sri Lanka has the 4th highest rate of suicide. Maskeliya, where we are based, is a hot spot within Sri Lanka. Finally, in a country where only 6.6% of the 20 million population live in extreme poverty, 80% of our students live on less than $1 a day. But it is not just the multi-layered social issues, or the grinding poverty… this is only half of the problem… it is also the poverty of hope. In a country where businesses operate in the English language, only 2 out of 25 English teachers in our local government schools can speak any English at all – so what hope is there? You see, the British brought Indian-origin Tamils to Sri Lanka 150 year...
  • 04 NOV 2017

    Tea Leaf Trust: 2017 Partner Report

    [font=OpenSansRegular, arial, sans-serif][b]Partner Report to Givology, October 2017[/b][/font] [font=OpenSansRegular, arial, sans-serif][b]Who we are[/b][/font] [font=OpenSansRegular, arial, sans-serif]Tea Leaf Trust is a UK registered charity (No: 1123427). We work exclusively in the tea estate areas of Sri Lanka where we run two schools for 18 to 24 year olds in Maskeliya and Nuwara Eliya (both in Central Province). We are registered as a non-profiting making business in Sri Lanka – Tea Leaf Vision (Guarantee) Ltd. Our focus and expertise is English language and professional development. However, we also do a lot of personal development work developing students’ coping mechanisms and emotional health in the face of complex social issues.[/font] [font=OpenSansRegular, arial, sans-serif]Around 80% of male tea estate workers are alcoholics, with 83% of women suffering from domestic violence. In a country that has the 4th highest suicide rate in the world, young people from the tea e...
View MoreView Less

8 Students and Projects

View MoreView Less