Blessed Botanicals is committed to community development and human rights. In order to put this commitment into action the Ropes to God ™ blend was created so that we could donate 100% of the profits to the Indigenous Land Rights Fund (ILRF).

The Indigenous Land Rights Fund (ILRF) is assisting Botswana's San Bushmen in trying to return to their ancestral homeland, the Central Kalahari game reserve, from which they were forcibly evicted in 2002 to make way for diamond mining claims and tourism development. Torture, violence, intimidation, armed units camped out in the Bushmen villages, the destruction of water stores, rescinding of hunting licenses and prevention of Bushmen from even gathering wild plants to eat, resulted in the people being moved into resettlement camps that they call "the place of Death." ILRF is helping the displaced Gana and Gwi Bushmen fight their battle in the Botswana High Court, and is also helping to fund a mediation process between them and government, brokered by several Nobel Peace Prize Winners. The San Bushmen are our living ancestors. The oldest known DNA that everyone on the planet shares, goes back to them. They do not make war, they promote gender equality, and their entire culture is based around healing. If we lose them, we lose the source, the essence of who we are, where we come from. All proceeds from the sale of this tea go to help the San Bushmen in their struggle to continue existing.
To find out more: www.landrightsfund.org

When you dance you will see a rope hanging from the sky. You can climb this rope. It is white and thin as a blade of grass, you don't have to grab or touch it. You just float away with that rope. The line just takes you. It can take you to your ancestors. It is our link with them. They tell us what to do. You go up and communicate with them and dance with them.

When they are through with you, they say - "Look at that fire down there." You see the fire where your people are dancing. They send you back.

There is a very big house where the Big God lives. When I go to the Big God's house, I talk with Him, and then after a while he asks: "Why is this man here? Send him back." And then I go back.

The Big God is not old or young. He is white, like light. He speaks your language.

Mataope Saboabue
Healer, Ngwatle, Botswana

Tara will be launching The Ropes to God Fund (RGF), a non profit dedicated to benefiting and promoting the healing traditions, medicinal plants and welfare of women and children within communities both at home and abroad. While in a trance the busmen healers climb the ropes to God and ask of God what healing needs to be done in the village below, it is with this intent that Ropes to God Fund is being formed.