Established in 2010, by Tim Pare and wife Yasmine, the Tea Leaf Trust is a UK-registered charity that develops and supports educational centres in Sri Lanka’s hill country providing crucial educational support to young people and children from the tea estates.
Since its formation the Trust has helped over 250,000 young people. It’s aims are to:
We have supported the Tea Leaf Trust since 2013 and currently sponsor the annual Speech Conference. Succeeding in the professional work environment in Sri Lanka requires a good grasp of the English language and the Speech Conference helps the students to enhance their level of confidence and professional presenting skills.
Each student presents their business ideas with the best individual speeches and Social Enterprise idea from each class selected. The conference is recognised both locally and nationally and is well attended by business executives and government officials.
With all these factors, it is hard for the youth of the tea estates to lift themselves or their families from poverty.
The Tea Leaf Trust founded and supports the running of Education Centres, delivering programmes of English language and personal and professional development to 18-24-year-olds from the tea estates.
Run by young people for young people, the centres focus on programmes that prioritise English and employability and emotional health support; allowing around 320 young adults each year to improve their chances for personal and professional success.
The staff are all graduates of the programme themselves, and offer strong, positive role models; able to understand the difficulties faced by the students whilst demonstrating what can be achieved by a good education.
The centres are concerned also with community development, supporting young people to become active agents of positive change in their communities and to develop skills to cope positively with the challenges they face.
back The Tea Leaf Trust promotes Literacy on the Sri Lanka Tea Estates. The Club has just approved a new grant to help provide basic English courses to 250 tea estate workers to help their employment prospects. The basic course can lead to a Diploma course.
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