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In Kenya, women bear the brunt as mechanisation wipes out tea sector jobs
Workers pick tea leaves on a Unilever tea plantation in Kericho, Kenya.
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On a cool Tuesday evening in Kapkugerwet village in Kenya’s Kericho County, Lucy Cheres puts a tea basket on her hunched back and heads out to the small tea farm in front of her house. There, she starts plucking tea leaves for the next day’s sale. It is an art she has perfected after 15 years of working as a casual labourer at a nearby tea plantation owned by the British-Dutch consumer goods conglomerate Unilever. But in 2015, Cheres was among the thousands of workers who lost their jobs after the company introduced tea picking machines.
Unilever hunting for more youth, women SME suppliers
Thursday January 28 2021
Small shop owner Sarah Macharia receives products from Mastercard head of East Africa Region Adam Jones (left), KCB head of channels Dennis Njau and Unilever sales director for East Africa Luck Ochieng during the launch of Jaza Duka programme in 2019. FILE PHOTO | NMG
By PATRICK ALUSHULA
Summary
Unilever is revamping its supply chain to include more small and medium-sized entities run by the youth, women and people with disabilities in a push to reduce income inequalities.
The firm says it wants to increase the participation of minority SMEs in its supply chain to help achieve fresh commitment to contributing to an equitable and inclusive society where everyone earns a living income.
December 17 2020 / Modified on December 17 2020 Petco Kenya, a company specialising in the recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles and products, has just commissioned a solid waste treatment plant in Kajiado County, Kenya. The plant will be capable of processing 10 tonnes of waste per day.
A solid waste treatment plant is operational in Kajiado, one of Kenya’s 47 counties. The facility was commissioned by Petco Kenya on 8 December 2020. The company, which specialises in recycling plastic bottles and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) products, financed the construction of the plant with 50 million Kenyan shillings, or about $448,000.
The processing plant handles PET bottles and products. It is the first facility of its kind built in this county in southwest Kenya. The initiative of the government of Kajiado and the cooperative society Taka Taka ni Mali will improve