CITIZEN ALERT v2.271MERCY CORPS

From the Mercy Corp this morning:

Fifty Indian rupees. That's about a dollar and 28 cents at current exchange rates — not enough to buy a cup of coffee most places.

But in northeast India's Darjeeling District, 50 rupees is a day's pay for hard-working tea pickers. Four hundred miles away, another half-million earn a similar wage plucking tea leaves in Assam's humid lowlands.

Tea dominates the economy of both Darjeeling and Assam, names synonymous with some of the world's best teas. Strong, malty Assam and golden-hued, fragrant Darjeeling teas have been prized above others for more than 150 years.

And during that century and a half, living conditions for tea workers have changed very little.

See what Mercy Corp is doing to change this by visiting their website.

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