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Fair Trade teas offer consumers an opportunity to enjoy
quality and taste while directly benefiting the lives of tea pickers and
their families. Fair Trade is a partnership between tea pickers, tea
traders and tea drinkers. Fair Trade means that the garden where the
tea is grown meets specific standards for the wages, living situation, and
working conditions of its pickers. And, for every tea purchase, a Fair
Trade premium goes directly back to the tea workers themselves. A
committee, elected by the workers, decides how these funds will be used to
meet the community's most serious needs. Tea workers have used Fair Trade
premiums to hire school teachers, build maternal health clinics, and bring
electricity to their villages, among other projects.
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