In 1992, Teekampagne (Tea Campaign) initiated project SERVE — Save the Environment and Regenerate Vital Employment. The project is implemented locally by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and financed by Teekampagne (Tea Campaign).
In a series of upcoming postings, this blog will highlight some of Tea Campaign’s socially responsible efforts in the region of Darjeeling.
Some information on SERVE can also be found here.
An article in FAZ.NET (Frankfurter Allgemeine online) describes the genesis of Teekampagne (Tea Campaign) and its philosophy of simplicity. [in German]
Abspecken und Tee trinken
Weniger is mehr, sagte sich Wirtschaftsprofessor Guenter Faltin und liess den Zwischenhandel weg. Damit wurde er zum groessten Teeversender.
Der Wunsch, Oekonomie anders zu lehren, kann Professoren auf ungewoehnliche Gedanken bringen. So hat Guenter Faltin einfach ein eigenes Unternehmen gegruendet. Das erste und bisher bekannteste Projekt ist die Teekampagne… mehr
In the September issue of Blood: Journal of the American Society of Hematology a scientific letter appeared about the possible effectiveness of green tea in curing amyloidosis, a medical condition in which amyloid proteins are abnormally deposited in organs and tissues of the body. The author Werner Hunstein, a renowned professor emeritus of hematology, who suffers from amyloidosis himself, traces the effects of green tea in improving his own illness. Hunstein was diagnosed with amyloidosis in 2001, and the aggressive chemotherapy treatment that followed left him shattered. That he managed to recover his strength and go back to normal in his daily life, Hunstein attributes to green tea. When he began to drink large amounts of green tea (usually about two liters per day), his condition improved significantly; the deposition of amyloid proteins was stopped, and his heart resumed beating more strongly.
In a letter to Teekampagne, our parent company, Professor Hunstein revealed that the green tea which proved so beneficial to his health was Teekampagne’s Darjeeling Green Tea.
(Werner Hunstein, “Epigallocathechin-3-gallate in AL amyloidosis: a new therapeutic option?” Blood, 15 September 2007, Vol. 110, No. 6, pp. 2216; “Hilft gruener Tee gegen krankhafte Eiweissablagerungen?” Neue Zuercher Zeitung, 19 September 2007.)
