Hosted universally. This Fall at your home or office or during Thanksgiving dinner, have some Indonique Tea and help those in need. If you have Indonique Tea the donation's been made for you. If you can't get our tea, any tea will do. just ask for a dollar from everyone in attendance as a programT42 donation.

Some Photos from December's Party. Please send yours!

Estonia Cares!	Youngest participant from Japan!

Actress Casey McDougal, star of "Through the Woods", Willow's Way" "After last Season", & Web TV series Oldbury Hill hosted a tea for 200 plus participants!	New Orleans Tea Party at The Chimes Bed & Breakfast, 3 of 50 participants	Formal Tea Party, New Jersey

Where:

Your living room, your workplace, your friend's house, your school... wherever you can sit down and have a cup of tea.

Event Description:

Wherever you are in the world on February 27th, take a break and grab a few people to sit down and enjoy some tea! Indonique Tea is hosting a global tea party to promote their tea and raise awareness about the labor and living conditions of those who pick the tea leaves.

In some of the world's most renowned tea-growing regions in India, families have worked and lived for more than a century behind the fences of tea estates, eager for change but afraid to voice their opinions lest they lose their jobs and homes. The average daily pay is about $1.28 for a tea plucker in Darjeeling, one of the lowest wage rates in the formal economy, according to the Indian Labor Bureau. The estimated literacy rate for tea families across India is a dismal 30 percent, and there is a high prevalence of preventable diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. Mercy Corps works in these regions to empower tea pluckers and their communities to find opportunities and build better lives for themselves.

Indonique Tea's Program T42 is dedicated to raising the quality of life these families in places like Darjeeling and Assam through Mercy Corps Programs.

There are 3 ways to take part in this event:

1. Host a Tea Party. If you're serving Indonique Tea, a donation has already been made. If not, encourage everyone to make at least a $1 donation to Mercy Corps Join the Facebook Group and see the Events Page to learn how to host your Tea Party.
You can send checks to Indonique Tea & Chai, PO Box 1298, Glastonbury, CT 06033. We'll forward them to Mercy Corps.

Join Facebook Group "Program T42"

2. Encourage your local retailer to stock Indonique Tea.

3. If you miss the tea party on February 27th, be assured that anytime you buy an Indonique tea, 10% of the proceeds will benefit the people who pick our teas through NGOs like Mercy Corps and Feed the Children.

4. Tell or invite everyone you know via email, phone, Facebook etc.. You can change the world by just having a cup of tea with friends! Use this link to open then print a copy of this page and pass it around.

World Tea Party pdf link = www.indonique.com/pdf/wtp.pdf

More Information:

Read about Mercy Corps programs at tea estates in India (http://mercycorps.org/countries/india)
Buy Indonique Tea http://www.indonique.com/index.php and learn more about their T42 Program.

Note: Redbush and Honeybush tea purchases generate donations to Feed the Children to support daycare operations in South Africa. All other tea sales generate donations to Mercy Corps to support programs in the tea picker communities of India.