Kenyan Tea Producer tauts Fair Trade

Julius Ethang'atha, representing smale-scale tea producers in Kenya, talked to the BBC while visiting Scotland during Fairtrade Fortnight. He described fair trade's effects:

We identified the most disadvantaged tea-producing factory in my area and established a pilot programme to help them work to produce tea for the Fair Trade market.

Since then, the social impact of Fair Trade in that first factory has been enormous.

Schools have been built and existing schools improved.

Dispensaries, water systems, roads, school bursaries for the poorest in society and feeding centres for those with HIV/Aids have been put in place.

All these projects have been funded by the social premium paid through Fair Trade, all of them democratically decided upon by the producers themselves.