Tea Leaf Vision Professional Development Centres

Hello Everyone,

We hope that you are safe and well and that 2022 has started brightly for you. Our love and thoughts go to any of you who are 'doing life tough' at the moment.

So, on November 22nd, the day we have longed for and have planned for arrived - our centres reopened. As promised to our students, and because of your support, we were able to provide our programmes from the moment the government and education department gave the green light. 

Our staff continue to amaze us, and they worked double shifts until the end of December to give the 2021 cohort, who have been so badly affected by the pandemic, the most opportunity to learn as possible. 

Our students focused on studying employability skills, getting their CVs and cover letters ready, applying for jobs through our partnerships and links and practising their interview skills. We continue supporting those who need it with bus fairs and interview clothes.

Rebuilding lives in the tea estates will take time and needs to start with the young people. Lives have been affected by a state of emergency for food shortages, huge unemployment, a politicised vaccine roll out that has largely ignored the tea workers and a huge rise in the cost of living. Young people hold the key to supporting their families and finding employment - but this is a huge responsibility that can take its toll. We are here for them as they hustle, as they apply for work, as they get the skills they need to lift their families out of extreme poverty.

We are being overwhelmed with applications for 2022. If you are able to support us with a regular gift... well, that would really be a wonderful new year present for the youth of the tea estates.

Thank you again, and best wishes from all of us at Tea Leaf Trust,

Tim, Yas and all at TLT

Links:

• https://www.facebook.com/TeaLeafTrust