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A man with tea cups lined up in front of him.
Cups of tea are made from samples from across Sri Lanka at a tea broker in the capital Colombo.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)
A man pours tea.
Sri Lanka is the second largest supplier of tea to the Australian market.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)

A box of tea with the Rainforest Alliance logo.
Rainforest Alliance is the largest certification scheme in Sri Lanka's tea industry.(Foreign Correspondent: Matt Henry)

A woman picks tea on a steep slope in Sri Lanka.
Tea workers often live and work on isolated tea estates where working conditions can be harsh.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)

A map showing Sri Lanka's tea growing regions.

A woman picking tea.
Tea plucker Darshini has to pick 18kg of tea a day or risk being paid less than the minimum wage.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)
Leaves in a heap.
Freshly picked tea leaves ready to be taken to a tea factory.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)
A woman's bare feet.
Darshini's feet as she works in the tea fields.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)

A woman sitting on her bed.
Darshini struggles to feed her three children on her wages.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)

A woman holds a child.
Residents in a tea estate village in Sri Lanka.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)

A village at sunset.
A village on the edge of tea plantations in Sri Lanka's central highlands.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)

A house with the lights on at night.
Line houses on a Sri Lankan tea estate at night.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)

A woman at the window.
Vimaladevi says she's never seen auditors inspect substandard housing on her estate despite its certificaiton.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)

A town.
Passing through a town on the edge of Sri Lanka's tea region.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)
A man at the window of a train.
Passengers waiting for a train to depart in Kandy.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)


Tea workers sweeping.
Tea factory workers sweeping up in the evening.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)
A worker standing in front of a machine.
A worker operates machinery at a tea factory.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)
A woman with her hand scooping up dried tea.
Factory workers preparing dried tea for shipment.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)

Women standing in front of big piles of tea leaves.
Tea leaves are weighed at the end of the day.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)

A young girl sitting on a rock in a garden.
A child worker sits in a private garden where she's paid to remove weeds.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)

A man sits at a desk.
Rainforest Alliance country representative in Sri Lanka, Jehan CanagaRetna.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)
A man at his desk.
Roshan Rajadurai represents Sri Lanka's tea estates.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)

A street with buses.
Fort Station in central Colombo.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)
A truck with a tea cup on the side.
A truck advertising tea in Colombo.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)
A man takes a puff of a cigar.
A man smokes a cigar in Colombo.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)
Men at a fruit shop.
Young men at a fruit and vegetable market in Colombo.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)
A family carrying bags.
A family crossing the street in Colombo.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)

A woman with a tea bag.
A tea picker at work in the fields with the estate's 'line houses' in the background.(Foreign Correspondent: Tom Joyner)

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