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Hi. Thank you for taking time to read this story. My name is Jelena and my husband's name is Neven. We are a young married couple and we are true tea lovers. We don't see tea just as beverage, for us, tea is far more than that.
In
our town, Banja Luka, there was no place you could buy exclusive, healthy and
organic natural leaf tea, so you had to go abroad to buy it. Because of
that, we decided to take a bank loan and open our own tea house. So, our love
of tea has given birth to a small company that we are very proud of. Our tea
house was opened in December last year. We named it "Prana" which means "life
energy". There are more than 100 different tea blends in our store now.
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We
think that people here deserve to have an authentic place like this where they can buy
exclusive tea and feel the magic of traditional tea culture.
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Our
tea house is the first specialized tea shop in Banja Luka and probably in the
whole country. Since we are the first to do this, we thought that we will do
just fine from the beginning, but we were wrong. People here don't have the habit
to drink tea a lot and are not familiar with health benefits of tea. They drink
tea mainly in the winter and when they are sick. The store is currently not
bringing profit, but we are still optimists.
So
now, we are trying to promote tea culture and its health benefits in every
possible way. We were on TV, in some magazine articles, we organize educations
and tastings and do many other promotional activities just to sustain this
business at the beginning and keep our tea house opened (you can watch our TV appearances on the bottom of the page).
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But now, when people have the whole new incredible world of tea to discover, we realized that they
are actually more and more attracted to our teas and healthy way of life.
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Our goal is to help people learn more about health benefits of tea
and promote tea culture in our country.
So how can we accomplish that? That's
right, by letting them try our teas and discover it by themselves. We want more people to have the chance to try these
exclusive teas. Recently, we started to hand pack our tea into tea bags and
sell them to exclusive restaurants and cafes. People who have tried it are
absolutely thrilled by its flavours and aromas.
Since it is really hard and slow
to pack tea into small tea bags by hand, we started this campaign to raise
money for buying pyramid tea bag packing machine. Why pyramids? Because pyramid
tea bags have more space than regular square shaped tea bags, so that way we
could pack tea in its best form – loose leaf and we could even pack fruit
infusions with big fruit pieces.
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WE WANT TO CREATE A NEW, WELL-KNOWN PRODUCT AND WE WANT YOU TO BE PART
OF IT.
So how can you be part of it? Easy...
- Read the story.
- Choose best perk for you.
- Contribute.
- Leave your info so we can contact you.
- Share this campaign and spread the word about it.
CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL ADMIRE YOU WHEN THEY SEE THE PRODUCT YOU HELPED TO CREATE?
There are some exclusive perks for you, so you can leave
your mark on our product.
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WHEN THESE TEAS BECOME A WORLDWIDE KNOWN PRODUCT, WOULDN'T YOU FEEL REALLY PROUD OF YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU HELPED CREATE IT?
What do we need money for?
As written in text above, we want to buy pyramid tea bag packing machine.
Money will be used as stated in the pie chart below:
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TV appearances
Other Ways You Can Help
You don't need to get most expensive perks, less expensive are also ok.
If you find that you can't contribute financially, you can still help us. Anything you can do to virtually share our story would be greatly appreciated.
You can help by:
- Sharing this campaign on social networks.
- Talking about it to your coworkers, friends and family.
- Sending us any suggestions and ideas that can help us.
- Sharing your experiences with us.
We wish you all good luck.
Jelena & Neven
Our Friends
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