Please don’t say I don’t think of you! I was pretty impressed with this and thought it might appeal to the homesick ex-pats over there in London. Especially seeing as it features one of those unique South African flavours – Rooibos tea.

So not only will you be scoring freebies, you’ll be doing a good thing too! You see, this Rooibos tea producer (Royal-T) has pledged to donate all profits from it’s UK sales to a South African Children’s orphanage called Mama Lumka (www.mamalumka.org.za).

I found out how it all works, as well as some interesting facts! Like the fact that you can contact Royal-T and have them SEND FREE TEA TO A FRIEND!

Check this out, from Royal-T:

Rooibos Tea is a herbal bush tea exclusively found and grown in South Africa, and has the fastest growing number of sales compared to any other herbal tea cultivar available in the UK.

The reason for this is people seem to like the benefits of this tea:

• Rooibos tea is (naturally) caffeine free and only has half the tannin of ordinary tea

• Rooibos contains essential minerals and unique powerful antioxidants that can help with anti-aging and can have anti-inflammatory properties

• Naturally contains Polyphenols that can help protect the body from damage done by free radicals

• Can relieve digestive problems, nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps and constipation. It also can have a calming effect and alleviate irritability, insomnia and depression.

• Rooibos can help reducing cancer-associated changes in damaged DNA cells

• 100% Organic, completely pure and is steam sterilized

• Tastes not too dissimilar to normal tea.

Royal-T Rooibos uses the highest grade pure Rooibos available and is available nationwide now at all Costco stores and even offered at the same price as in South Africa (99p per pack of 40 tea bags).

To help educate people about the benefits of Rooibos and help the Mama Lumka orphanage, we have created a dedicated Twitter (www.twitter.com/rooibosT) and Blog (www.royalrooibos.com )
for the UK market.

Very cool. And how about this – For the launch they are also running a special offer till the end of July 2009 where anyone in the UK can win £100 and get free tea sent to a friend, or choose to donate the tea to the children’s orphanage charity.

More here at the Royal T website

I investigated what needs to be done and it looks like all you need to do is take a picture of yourself with Rooibos Tea and email it with your name and a contact number to win@royalrooibos.com.

They will pick one picture randomly at the end of July 2009 and send the winner £100 cash. All the pictures sent in will be displayed in a gallery on the website.

For more info or for pictures please email chris@huddlemind.com.

For competition details go to www.royalrooibos.com/campaign.