Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Dark side of
India’s tea villages - Raid reunites trafficked tea plantation sisters
Are you a tea
drinker? There is a story behind the tea leaves in your pot. India, the second most
populous country in the world, is also the second most tea producing country
after China. While drinkers of tea enjoy the flavor and taste and traders and
producers make money, workers in tea plantations in India seem to earn no more
than what can barely live with, and sometimes even own unrepayable amount of debts.
Then there are
people who try to take advantage of such desperate lives of those tea
plantation workers. They approach with money and promises that those poor
labors can hardly resist, take their daughters from their families and sell them
to places whose conditions are far different from what they had promised.
But if there
is dark side, there is also a bright side. An organization founded by a Nobel
Peace Prize winner, Bachao Bachpan Andolan, or the BBA, are working to protect
children from child labor and trafficking.
Read the
article and watch the video to learn what is behind tea leaves.
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