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Shop Tea Shop CoffeeOur award-winning Kenyan Black Tea is grown in the green, fertile Kisii Hills of western Kenya. Ajiri means "to employ" in Swahili. Our goal is to create employment for women in western Kenya. Each unique label is handmade using dried banana bark. All profits from sales of Ajiri Tea are donated to the Ajiri Foundation to pay school fees for orphans in western Kenya.
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The joyful freedom of summer camp. On our last night of the annual Camp Ajiri held at a large farm in Kenya, we were walking through a field with our 20 scholars, flashlights in hand, looking for owls and chameleons, when everyone started to run and shout "siafu!" Translation: army ants. There were shrieks of pain followed by shrieks of laughter. All ar
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I honestly don't know when this shift happened. Was it during the pandemic? Is it the rise of non-stop digital consumption? Or is it just that we are getting older? But somewhere in this journey of creating a for-purpose company, people just stopped caring. Or maybe they started caring less.
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Tea and Teenagers . . . At Ajiri we try to fix things. High unemployment? We'll create jobs. Children need school fees? We pay school fees. But we can't fix those teenage years. We can't take away awkward growth. We can't remove their desire to be somewhere else or be someone else. But through encouragement, through truly seeing them, we can at least lead them to like a part of themselves. 💕
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