Giving Compass' Take:

• Lipton tea company is partnering with WE charity and providing business skills capacity training to women across Kenya in order to strengthen financial literacy and business planning within the female population. 

• How are initiatives such as this one by corporate entities helpful and/ or perhaps harmful to local communities? What limitations do you see to this model? 

• Read about how Exxon is getting women involved more in supply chains. 

Lipton and WE are working together to empower 80,000 women in tea farming communities across Kenya by providing them access to financial and business skills training. Program participants will learn financial fundamentals from budgeting and cost-pricing to creating business plans and applying for loans in addition to:

  • Financial literacy including communication, bookkeeping and loan distribution
  • Leadership fundamentals like conducting corporate elections, drafting policies and establishing group constitutions
  • Entrepreneurship tools from marketing to pricing
  • Health management, including stress and substance abuse education

Tea drinkers can help support the program by purchasing their favorite Lipton product with a Track Your Impact sticker. Each sticker has a code that consumers can enter online to see exactly where and how every purchase has made an impact on women tea farming communities.

Read the full article about Lipton helps tea farmers  by Api Podder at My Social Good News