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After a year of planning FairMail India actually started functioning in febrauary 2009! 10 local teenagers are learning to become photographer to finance their own education needs. FairMail director Peter just came back from India and tells about what he saw with his own eyes: "It is amazing how quick and fluidly the starting up of FairMail India went. It seems as if there is a little angle on our shoulder."   Read more...

FairMail India has officially opened its doors to teenagers of the Nagwa slum near the holy city of Varanasi, India. 24 teenagers attended the first meeting showing their interest to be trained to become a photographer for FairMail.   Read more...

Ode biedt in samenwerken met FairMail 25 procent korting op de vijf beschikbare plaatsen voor de 'Het Verloren Rijk van de Chachapoyas' fotografiereis in het nevelwoud van Noord Peru.   Read more...

It is becoming harder and harder to believe NGO's, charity's and other organisations who are claiming to be making a difference in the lives of economically poor people in the south when you know they are going for your donating dollar or euro. Fundraising promotion campaigns work on our cultivated image of "the poor" filled with all our prejudices about what's the problem and what's should be the solutions. Wouldn't it be much more fair we ask them what their perspective is on how we are trying to help? With other words to let them tell the story...   Read more...

View a special documentary made by TV Brussel about FairMail Card's contribution to the United Nations Millenium Goals. This short film gives insight into how FairMail's teenage photographers are getting off of Trujillo's garbage dump and into school thanks to the sale of their own fair trade photo greeting cards.   Read more...

Between the 10th and 24th of September David and Cinthia, two of the FairMail teenage photographers are coming to the Netherlands for a big promotional campaign. During these two weeks they will be visiting different fairs, festivals and shops to tell the positive story behind FairMail.

Our clients in the Netherlands have the chance to win a private meeting with David and Cinthia! They will be visiting the winner together with the two initiators of FairMail. That can be at home to have breakfast together, or meeting in a nice cafe nearby in the evening. During the 'Meet and Greet' you will have the opportunity to personally get to know David and Cinthia and ask them whatever you want to. Maybe you can even give them tips on what pictures to take in the future!   Read more...

Sometimes life can take strange ways. One year you are living on the streets and earning a living singing songs for people who walk by and the next year you win an international photography competition!

This is exactly what happened to FairMail teenager Juan Carlos Cabellos last week when he heard that he had won an international photography competition organized by the BID Challenge. In total there where 177 photos submitted for this competition with as theme ¨entrepreneurs that work on sustainable economical development in developing countries¨. Juan Carlos´ picture of a Peruvia market salesman selling fish on the market of Celendin was the best according to the jury who gave him the first prize of 200 euros.   Read more...

On the 22nd of March FairMail Peru organized a photoexposition called "Una Gran Excursion" (A wonderful excursion, red.) in restaurant Otra Cosa in Huanchaco, Peru. FairMail's teenage photographers chose this name to go with the pictures they took during the last FairMail photography excursion in February to the Peruvian Andes. The theme of the exposition was the Peruvian Andes.   Read more...

Fair Trade is becoming more and more known amongst the general public which is a great thing. A few products are HOT, like coffee, fruits and cacao after the stories about farmer exploitation reached the main stream media. Untold are the stories about how most Western photo post card companies steal the natural beauty from countries in the south to make the western countries richer and leave the natural owners of the countries beauty with nothing!   Read more...

Check out www.fairmail.info for a really cool new fair trade initiative from Peru. The world's first fair trade photo greeting cards (certified by the dutch association of fair trade shops). They have trained teenagers who used to live and work on the streets of Trujillo, Peru or worked on the cities garbage dump. Now these kids make pictures of the beauty around them. They get 50% of the profit of each card carrying their picture to finance their own education! That's on top of their livable wage and medical insurance for them and their family. The 9 teenagers they work with so far are developing their creativity. Not only artistically but also in shaping their own futures!   Read more...