KAZI & KAZI TEA

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- Making social responsibility an integral part of the business

- By social responsibility, we mean:

- Investing and re-investing in the country;

- Create new jobs;

PURPOSE

ON COURSE IN ACHIEVING OUR PURPOSE

2000 before KKTEA 2010 with KKTEA

KAZI & KAZI TEA ESTATE LTD.:

Vision:

• Producing great tea

• Supporting natural & social environment.

• 800 acres, 250,000kgs of tea

• Internationally certified organic tea

• Innovations beyond certification –

•Herbal shade trees and water bodies

•Revived natural and wild life

•Bio-gas plants

OPERATIONS:

The totality of KKTE’s enterprise provides a unique yet replicable

model for green business, social business and for premium

branding in the global market.

• No artificial/chemical inputs.

• Nature’s own processes to fertilize plants and control pests.

ORGANIC: THE WAY OF NATURE

• Own dairy farm and

• A dairy farmers’ co-operative.

BIO-FERTILIZER:

Cow dung from these two sources are the key ingredient of

our bio-fertilizers.

• Started in August, 2005

• Open to workers and neighbors

• Non-cash repayment

• A win-win formula

THE CO-OPERATIVE:

THE CO-OPERATIVE:

• Lent over 1444 cows to-date

• Over 737 members have already fully repaid

SOCIAL IMPACT OF CO OPERATIVE:

• The Co-op fosters local enterprise, especially among women

• Most member increased income by 50% in two to three years of time.

- Adult education

COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT

- Computer training

- Child Education

EXPANSION PLANS

• Double the plantation

• Increase Co-op up to 5000 members

• Enter new markets as a single-estate brand

PLANS FOR RAISING CAPITAL

• Preferential Loan

• Social Stock Exchange

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