The real price of a cup of tea
Much of the Lyons tea drunk in Ireland is grown in a Kenyan plantation where workers say they’ve suffered sexual harassment and exploitation. Parent company Unilever says the claims are untrue. So is it a scandal, or a storm in a teacup? JODY CLARKEreports from Kericho
REBECCA ONGERI*, pulls one grain sack, then another, away from a crack in her bedroom window. She shudders against the quick mountain air, which blows in and across her 60-year-old frame and down on to her two grandchildren, who are cuddling for warmth on the bare floor of her two-roomed shack.