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Your tea dollars at work. 100% of the profits from the sale of Ajiri products are donated to the Ajiri Foundation. Learn about our incredible scholars, programming, and how your purchases add up...
Read more about 2021 Impact ReportOn a recent trip to Kenya I met with old family friends in Nairobi. It was the first trip I had taken since having my son in July 2020. Mrs. Ambundo, who...
Read more about Motherhood and Jam SandwichesThe effects of climate change are being felt the most by women. It is women, after all, who are walking to the river to collect water. It is women who are providing...
Read more about One for the Money, Two for the ShowWe often don’t discuss how we are a family-run organization. I work with my mother, Ann, and my sister, Sara, here in the U.S. Three times a week we have a group...
Read more about Refute of Impersonal ProfessionalismSara and I have been finalists in five startup competitions, looking to raise capital for Ajiri Tea. Most of the time we are beat out by someone promising change driven by "cutting-edge"...
Read more about Always A Bridesmaid Never A BrideAs people begin to gather this time of year, you might be confronted with the well-meaning "How are you?" This can seem as hollow as the "I hope this email finds you...
Read more about I'm Fine. You're Fine. We're All Fine. Okay?As I think about how our community in Kenya is growing and we are growing in parallel a world away, my mind turns to all of you, our customers. Having not been...
Read more about How to Cultivate Empathy from AfarDifna is the first to tell you that you don't have to be a "mom" to mother and you don't have to be family to act as a family. Our Ajiri scholars...
Read more about The Many Mothers of Ajiri TeaWe're taking a scrap of optimism. We're not burdening it with the forethought of grief. We're cultivating it with every student we help to raise, every woman we employ, every box of tea...
Read more about In Peace of Wild ThingsWe initially decided to employ women to craft the Ajiri Tea and Coffee packaging because women tend to reinvest over 90% of their earnings back into their families and communities. But we continue...
Read more about Women's WorkPandemic fatigue. Parenting fatigue. Screen fatigue. Tired of being tired. And perhaps even, dare we write it, all the caffeine just isn't giving you that strength like it used to? Stay with...
Read more about How to refill your own cup of hopeHakuna matata! What "Kenyan Time" teaches us about quarantine time. How we deal with our anxieties to constantly be productive, and our shifting perceptions on what "productivity" actually means.
Read more about Less Doing, More Brewing
