Twelve years ago, Rare Tea Company began working with the Satemwa Tea Estate in Malawi, East Africa. Founder Henrietta Lovell visited Satemwa and saw the possibility of creating sustainable development and social change by re-investing a percentage of the revenue from Rare Tea sales into the young people connected to the Estate.

She asked the workers on the Estate what they needed most, and they gave her a clear and unanimous answer – educational opportunities.

Rare Charity was founded in 2016 to respond to this need.