Building a Wider
Horizon With Labour
International Tea Day (ITD) has been celebrated every year since 2005 to bring about awareness of issues concerning workers in tea-gardens or tea-estates across nations that are the major tea-growers across the world - like India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vietnam, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Uganda and Tanzania. According to the website of the Centre for Education and Communication: "On December 15, 2005, tea workers and small growers from 11 tea producing countries from Africa, South Asia and East Asia observed the first International Tea Day in New Delhi and called for the constitution of an International Tea Commission to promote and strengthen the tea industry, which will have specific provisions to protect the interests of tea workers and small growers." Since then, ITD has been celebrated on December 15 every year.
