Drink Tea, Educate a Refugee
Welcome to the Retea mission. We believe every cup of tea can create a lasting, positive impact on the world. Our commitment is simple, transparent, and direct: Every pouch of Retea provides up to 10 hours of essential education for a refugee child or adult. We proudly partner with organizations like the International Rescue Committee (IRC), making a monthly donation based on the number of pouches sold to ensure these funds are channeled directly into life-changing educational programs.
The Power of Your Purchase
Together with our customers, we have helped fund an incredible milestone:
- As of December 2019, you have helped fund up to 75,700 hours of education!
The mission continues: We are dedicated to consistently surpassing this number every year. By choosing Retea, you are directly investing in the stability, knowledge, and hope needed for displaced families to build a better future.
How it works
Despite the dire and growing need, currently less than 2% of international aid goes to funding education during humanitarian crises. In times of displacement, education is crucial as it can provide stability, structure, and a safe environment, especially for young children.
To make this happen, the UN has set the following goal: Education should be a least 4% of the overall humanitarian budget. Each pouch of Retea will help make that a reality because we believe in #morethan2percent.
You can learn more about the UN Global Education First Initiative here.
You Make a Choice: You purchase any Retea blend. This simple choice immediately initiates the process, dedicating the necessary profit to refugee education.
We Donate Monthly: Based on the number of pouches sold, we make a monthly, audited donation to our non-profit partners, like the International Rescue Committee (IRC).
Education Delivered: Our partners utilize these funds to deliver school supplies, fund classrooms, teachers, and even transportation to school, ensuring classroom time is made possible.
Our Teas
We curate unique teas that deliver rich flavors with every cup.Sweet, spicy, citrusy, floral and more. From mellow to bold, we create loose leaf tea blends with one thing in mind: flavor.
We cut out the mysticism and the ancient mythology and deliver to you high quality ingredients in our signature blends made in small batches at our kitchen in Detroit.
We give a great deal of attention to the ingredients we select. Where the ingredients come from is important, because it impacts the flavor. Whether it was the tea or an herb, the unique environmental conditions each plant lives in nurtures its distinct flavor characteristics. The farms way of withering and drying the leaf, the form and the packaging of the tea, and your handling and steeping of every cup, are all stages we carefully considered as we selected our menu.
We want your experience with every cup to be focused on enjoying the flavor that our Retea blends provide, while also knowing that your purchase has helped a child achieve an education .