Ms Saritha Kumari has worked as a Tea Leaf Plucker at United Nilgiri Tea Estates in South India for seven years. Originally from Jharkhand, she moved south to the estate with her baby daughter, determined to find steady work and a better future for her family.

‘Coffee in my family comes from my grandparents, they came here and dedicated themselves to coffee. They taught my father, then my father taught us. And we continue with the descendants of cultivating coffee and trying to improve every year’

As Deputy Secretary of the Women’s Association at her co-operative, Amani Adèle Yao leads a growing group of women who are reshaping their roles in cocoa farming and household decision-making.