The Fair Trade premium has provided craft equipment and abacuses to the estate primary school as well as extending the playground for the 280 children who attend. Tea estates must by law provide primary education in Tamil, but Chamraj also provides secondary education in both Tamil and English up to age 18 to prepare students for higher education. The premium also goes toward funding a portion of teacher salaries. English education is normally very expensive but parents here only have to pay a small fee for their children, most of whom are the first generation in their family to have access to this kind of education.
