“Solidarity is everything.” This is how Christina Kayala, a spice farmer from Lutindi, a tea growing area in northeastern Tanzania, summarizes the role that her group spice processing enterprise has played in her own life and livelihood. “We’re able to do this whole business because we are together.”
Through the Her Money, Her Life project, funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, CARE has supported Christina along with 40,000 other female Tanzanian farmers in building livelihoods through village savings and lending associations (VSLAs) and collective investments. This brief tells the story of Christina and the Lutindi Tea, Herbs, and Spices group.
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