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We're so excited for you to purchase Live Your Love Tea™ so we can start giving 25% of our profits and partner with individuals and communities around the world to assist people in overcoming poverty, abuse, hunger, hate, and injustice.
This tea is a pure Ceylon black tea, and comes in bagged form. It smells rich and malty, which you all know is wonderful in a straight black tea. The finish on this is very smooth with no bitter aftertaste. Live Your Love gives back a portion of the proceeds from the sale of their tea to Sri Lanka’s branch of Smile International. This organization helps to provide health care, education and other services to those in need in Sri Lanka. Another added bonus to this tea. There is no staple in the bag. Go online:
http://thepurrfectcup.com/2013/05/19/live-your-love-a-tea-review/
Live Your Love Tea™ update...
JUNE 2013 - After the devastating 2004 tsunami that left thousands dead, and million of dollars in damage, Jeremy and Jasmine Dean each traveled to the country individually, unbeknownst to one another. While doing volunteer relief work in Kallar, a village that suffered significant damage, the two met in 2005 and fell in love, eventually marrying. Years later, they traveled back to the country that brought them together and began their mission to give back.
Founded by Jeremy and Jasmine Dean, Live Your Love™ became a limited liability company (LLC) in December 2009. They now package and sell their own Sri Lankan (Ceylon) tea, the proceeds of which help finance current projects they are working on. Recent projects include helping fund foundations that support a medical clinic of Smile Lanka, which is focused on helping to provide clean drinking water. The reality that, world wide, 6 children die every minute due to diarrhea because of the lack of clean drinking water is something Smile Lanka is addressing close to home.
Support Live Your Love™ tea; a Fair Trade tea, sourced from Sri Lanka, "...it is just the right, robust brew that satisfies. This tea is a pure Ceylon black tea, and comes in bagged form. The finish is very smooth with no bitter aftertaste. Live Your Love™ gives back a portion of the proceeds from the sale of their tea to Sri Lanka’s branch of Smile International. This organization helps to provide health care, education and other services to those in need in Sri Lanka. Another added bonus to this tea: There is no staple in the bag." Read this recent review:
http://internationalteamoment.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-live-your-love-moment.html
In light of the recent tornados in Oklahoma, the Deans have decided to do something to help people who have lost everything. 100% of the profits of "We're All OK" T-shirts will go to specific families and individuals who were affected by the tornado. They are beyond excited to be able to help restore lives with your purchases.
Live Your Love is in the news at Given Goods. http://liveyourlove.com/news/ One remark made: I once saw a graphic that read, “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy tea and that’s kind of the same thing.” This couldn’t be more true for Live Your Love™. Now, every morning when I drink my tea, I can taste the hills of Sri Lanka and know that I have positively impacted a country—from pro-viding tea plantation workers with fair trade to empowering the next generation of children. Each LYL container of tea is specially packaged with bio-degradable Live Your Love™ boxes featuring two hands with interlocked thumbs. This image not only represents their hearts, but also their goal to bridge communities in the U.S. and Europe with those in Sri Lanka.' “Live Your Love™ is all about opening the doors for communities to impact one another,” LYL co-founder Jeremy Dean said. Live Your Love™ believes in quality and generosity and this tea is a great example of that heart and passion. Check out their inspiring story and buy some tea... make a difference!
It's easy. You give. We give.
The goal of Live Your Love™ is to take an every day activity , like drinking tea, and turn it into an opportunity to empower those less fortunate. We've followed their story, now see where it has led! Buy tea Sept 26, 2011. Live Your Love was co-founded in 2008 by Jeremy and Jasmine Dean and became an official limited liability company in December 2009. Live Your Love exists to partner with individuals and communities around the world to assist people in overcoming poverty, abuse, hunger, hate, and injustice.
Jeremy and Jasmine met in Sri Lanka in early 2005 while doing voluntary relief work after the Southeast Asian tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands in the region. They got married in 2007 and have since traveled twice to Haiti and moved back to Sri Lanka for five months in 2009 to meet with communities and collaborate with local organizations to help people in need of food, education, and love. Jeremy and Jasmine Dean are currently in the process of branding their own line of Ceylon (Sri Lankan) tea to promote the vision of Live Your Love. The first round of tea will be fair trade, black tea with biodegradable packaging. When you buy a box of tea, you will finance current and future projects as well as bring awareness to the needs of people they are helping around the world.
Each box will have a message about Live Your Love projects and how to find out more. If you would like to partner with Jeremy and Jasmine Dean in any way, they would love to hear from you: contact them at info@liveyourlove.com or online at www.liveyourlove.com
June 4 - Back to the U.S. We leave this Saturday back to the States via Chennai and Brussels and arrive Sunday around noon! We don’t know how long we’ll be back in the States but we are incredibly excited to start filing the paper-work to make 'Live Your Love' a legitimate nonprofit organization. We will keep everyone updated as soon as we are registered because we already have some potential business ventures on the horizon!
Last Adventures - We took the 8 hour, bumpy, sweaty, night train to the east coast of Sri Lanka last week. We had the incredible privilege to see the family that Jeremy lived with for 6 months in 2005, after the tsunami. They are so generous and wonderful and they opened their home to us for 3 days.
Kallar - We also got to visit a little, itty bitty town on the east coast called Kallar. This is the town that Jasmine lived in after the tsunami and where we met. We saw the dramatic changes the town has made since the tsunami and it was a joy to catch up with a few people whom we spent many days with 4 years ago! We saw many little towns on the east coast, and what a contrast it was to 2005. However, many families are still living with the effects of the tsunami (structurally or emotionally) as well as the effects of the 26 year-long civil war that ended recently. Many children are without parents and many adults are without work. We got to visit a makeshift school (a house that has been turned into a school for 140 students in the area) that is being run with no cost to the children by all donated funds. We visited on a Tuesday evening and even though there were no classes scheduled, dozens of kids showed up within minutes of our arrival.
They really enjoyed singing songs to us and showing us what they’ve learned in English class. It was an incredibly humbling experience to see this project in its beginning stages and we hope one day to return and see the progress!
Hambantota - If you remember from our past updates, we were able to visit Smile Lanka in the southern part of Sri Lanka. This is a preschool in the morning, after school program for older kids and a vocational school/program for widows in the area. All involved are the poorest in Hambantota and wouldn’t have this opportunity for education or food without Smile’s program.
Thank you to all 7 churches around the world, 116 people on Facebook and many others who joined in the prayer for Sri Lanka on the 1st of June. It was beautiful to see so many fight for the hundreds of thousands here! Thank you to all who have been a great support to us here. We wouldn’t have made it without you! We are most definitely looking forward to seeing friends and family. See you soon. Jeremy and Jasmine
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Jasmine & Jeremy in Sri Lanka
A highlight to our month was receiving care packages from friends around the world. Early in the month we got a beautiful Austrian poster from my wonderful Austrian friend Corinna. Later we received a mammoth of a package filled with Chex mix, Franks, hot sauce, candy and DVDs of our favorite shows that we're missing while we're here; thanks to our Rhode Island friends James and Lauren! We are so grateful to have friends who love us in this way!
Intro To All Things "Tea" This past week we had the incredible privilege to go to a Tea Company/Exporter whose office is based in Colombo. Amazingly, there was a guest speaker at Jeremy’s parent’s church and we were introduced to him after the service. He just so happens to be the C.O.O. of this massive Sri Lanka tea company and very kindly invited us to his office.
We thought it would be some small operation but were pleasantly surprised when we got the royal treatment around the entire place as they walked us through the process that tea goes through from plantation to the shelf. We not only learned SO much about the Tea industry but we got to go through the process of sampling the tea that is going to be up for auction in the coming weeks.
The man who we walked through with has been sampling/t
esting tea for over 20 years and kind of walked us through the entire process. (see photo) It was such a fun, unique experience and we learned a lot for future 'Live Your Love' business opportunities. DPS (Sinhalese acronym) At the end of this past month we started teaching English, on Friday nights (as well as continuing with our Tuesday afternoon classes) to 9 young Sri Lankan adults in the work place. We can tell that this class is going to be very fun because all of our students speak English well enough to have good conversation and really want to learn. See photo above/right.
Hambantota - As you will recall from our March update, we visited Smile International where, amongst other programs, they have a small vocational program for widows where they teach them to sew a couple of days per week. We have started a test run on producing handbags using the widows at the vocational school and are anxiously awaiting the final products. This is something we hope to do more of once we file and establish 'Live Your Love' as a registered non-profit.
Three Wheeler Crashes - On our way to the tea office, a three-wheeler lost control and went into the canal down the road. It was the first time we really experienced one of the unique dangers of transportation in South Asia. We've never seen anything like this and it was surreal to see the driver and the passenger getting pulled from the water with blood on their face. I thank God for our safety and experience in three-wheelers because we travel in them at least once a day! Our 'Live Your Love' logo and website are in the works, so stay posted. April was filled with lots of trips to the hospital. Check it out here: http://srilankablogs.weebly.com May 2009 Back to Top
Jasmine & Jeremy in Sri Lanka - HOMELESSNESS
This is a loud part of every day for me. If we go down the road to grab lunch or catch a ride in a 3-wheeler we are guaranteed to see beggars at any point during the day. They approach cars, stick their hand in your face as you walk by and call out to you from afar. The beggars may or may not work for someone else so it's not a good idea to give them money because we have NO idea where it will go. Sometimes they won't even take food when we offer it to them.
The night time is a different world. As we walk home at night, the main road in Colombo is lined with homeless. They are not the beggars we see during the day. These people do not have a place to sleep. Young and old create makeshift beds, even if it's just a sheet of cardboard, and hunker down for the night. It is a painful and gut-wrenching, in-my-face reality.
The beggars are usually deformed in one way or another: facial growths, missing limbs, enlarged or swollen appendages and even open wounds. The homeless at night, however, are just individuals and sometimes families with nowhere to sleep. We are praying about whether we should hand out food to the homeless one night a week but this could turn into a dependency issue. This is a constant prayer for us: how can we help those in desperate need without enabling them to become dependent on us?
HEAT - Like I mentioned in our prayer requests, it's been unseasonably hot here. The hottest part of the year is usually April. We don't have air conditioning so sleeping can sometimes be a challenge. It rained the other night and cooled it down for about a day. Looks like temps are rising again and makes things a bit more difficult. It drains our energy during the day and it's hard to sleep at night. I know, I know...most of you are reading this, buried under 3 feet of snow and have zero sympathy. I'm pretty sure I'd be thinking the same thing. I'm not complaining...just sharing the reality of life in Sri Lanka. I didn't say I wanted to jump back into the snow or anything : )
JOY IN THE MIDST - As depressing as all this may sound there are some beautiful and amazing things already happening in this country. Yes, there is a lot of sadness, chaos and confusion in this country - that is quite evident. But, when there is hurt, joy is close behind. God promises to be near to the brokenhearted. There is still a lot of progress to be made in this country but there is a lot of joy too. As you can see from some of the pictures last month, we were able to visit Smile International in Hambantota.
The kids in the program are from the poorest families in the community and chosen to get an education and daily meals from the facility. The joy on the kids faces makes the sadness almost obsolete at moments. I would literally forget where I was when I would see those kids laughing or eating or enjoying the one-on-one attention from "Sudu Auntie." (They call any visitor or friend auntie or uncle and sudu auntie means white auntie - I'm still not used to being called white; I guess I haven't spent enough time at the beach).
There are also a group of the poorest widows in the community, chosen to participate in their program that provides them with sewing classes, monthly fellowship at the facility and food to last almost a month. The women and children are so incredibly enriched and blessed by this outreach and it is OBVIOUS by the looks on their face when they leave. One step at a time, right? Jeremy and Jasmine April 2009
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Live Your Love! 
Hello Friends, Our three months in California came to an end and it was incredibly productive. We are amazed, every day, at how things have come together over the past couple of months. We arrived in Sri Lanka on the 22nd of January, and we are overwhelmed with ideas and excited to get to know the country.
Our purpose in Sri Lanka is to find the greatest need of the poor and help them out of poverty. We plan to do this one person at a time by getting involved within the community, building relationships with the needy and finding practical and attainable ways to aid those in need. We want to Raise Awareness for the need in Sri Lanka for education, livelihood projects and for the people them-selves.
We know that you have such great hearts and desire to help those in need. We are so blessed to get to be the ones to facilitate those needs. We want to Empower the People by creating micro-financing projects, and getting involved in the garment and tea industries that produce most of the countries exports.
We are scheduled to teach English to college students and volunteer with kids in the city slums as well as Community Concern Society in their schools for poor children. Our vision is still to be in Sri Lanka long term but, for our first trip, we will be in the country for six months. The focus of our time will be to start laying the foundations for our long-term vision called Live Your Love which embodies everything we hope to achieve in Sri Lanka. We are most excited about the future of Live Your Love and how it will not only impact the lives of Sri Lanka's poor but also the lives of people around the world...including you.
Our goal is to have about $13,500 for our first six months and we only need $3,000 more! Although this may seem like a big number, we know that it is 100% attainable considering we have almost 400 people involved and even $10 from everyone would surpass that goal. We pray that you will believe with us as we step out of the boat. ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind'. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
As we settle into our new home, please pray for safety in our apartment and our neighborhood as we travel the busy city every day. We are meeting people almost every day and we're praying that God will open all the opportunities to move forward. Please pray along with us that God will continue to open all the right doors and close all the wrong ones! Love, Jeremy and Jasmine Ready, Set ... Sri Lanka!
Their blogs, YouTube videos, and new photos are online at: www.srilankablogs.weebly.com. You can also read about Jasmine's Sri Lanka 2005 visit: www.jasmineinsrilanka.blogspot.com. March 2009
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