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Five new teenagers start trial period in Peru and India

Thursday, June 27th, 2013

: Juan Gabriel Escobedo Robles

Due to different reasons there were 6 vacancies for teenage photographers to be filled in Peru and India. With the help of our local partners (Asha Deep School in India and CEP, Mundo de Niños and ACJ in Peru) we pre-selected 5 responsible teenagers who are motivated to go school but have economic difficulties to do so, for a trial period. During this period they will participate in all of FairMail activities and trainings, trying to show us that they are also motivated to work for FairMail. And that they will be able to make full use of the opportunity they are getting with the camera we borough to them.

: Deepa Prajapti

The vacancies in Peru where created due to three teenagers reaching the age of 19 when they stop taking pictures for FairMail and start to concentrate on their (university) education or personal business with the money they earned so far. One teenager in Peru stopped attending FairMail classes regularly. When after several warnings he didn’t show up another time we were forced to terminate his participation.

: Diana cristina Suarez Acevedo

In India the 2 vacancies where created due to motivational problems of 2 of the teenagers. After several conversations and warnings this convinced us that 2 other teenagers would be able to make better use of the opportunity that FairMail seeks to give to deprived but motivated teenagers. All the 6 teenagers who stopped participating in FairMail, regardless of the reason why they stopped, will keep earning 50% of the profits made to invest in their education and housing. But they won’t be able to submit new pictures to FairMail.

: María de los Ángeles Acevedo Bobadilla

: Krishna Vishwash

Tags: Deepa, Diana, juan_gabriel, Krishna, Maria de los Angeles, teenagers
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FairMail images also available on stock photography sites

Thursday, June 27th, 2013

Hollandse Hoogte

In our everlasting quest to try and find new markets for the teenagers pictures FairMail has signed deals with 4 international stock photography agencies (Corbis, Majority World, World Portraits and Hollandse Hoogte). This means that a selection of the teenager’s pictures will be available on their on-line image databases. These are used by their customers looking for images for a wide range of products varying from magazines to newspapers and from advertisements to book covers. From now on they will also be able to select FairMail images, directly supporting our motivated and talented teenagers. Just like with their postcards, 50% of the profit FairMail makes with the sale of the images goes directly into the teenagers personal education fund.

World Portraits

According to Cila d’Oliviera, production manager at World Portraits, “representing FairMail’s photography is a logical step for World Portraits. It fits with our special concept to let (deprived) individuals everywhere in the world share in the profits of the pictures sold. This way we don’t only offer the models, but also the talented teenage photographers, a new perspective. Together we can take the idea of fair trade photography to a new level”

Majority World

Please feel free to share the opportunity to purchase fair trade images to any friends and colleagues who purchase images professionally and might be interested in fair trade photography.

Look out for news in the next newsletter about the possibility to download low cost low resolution images directly from the new FairMail website!

Tags: cooperation, photography, stock photography
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Program “Back to School” European tour with Peruvian teenagers announced

Tuesday, June 25th, 2013

FairMail Peru photographer Yomira

After announcing the European visit of two Peruvian teenagers two months ago we are now happy to announce their travel schedule. During these programmed activities you can personally meet Yuli and Yomira between the 21^st of August and the 10^th of September 2013.

The two FairMail Peru photographers will visit The Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany. We will start the tour and give a huge welcome to Yuli and Yomira during a special kick-off event in Utrecht, The Netherlands on Saturday the 24^th of August 2013. Please click here if you would like to receive an invitation to come to this event with free FairMail/Ben & Jerry’s ice cream!

Dhiraj explaining German television the unique story behind his cards

The goal of their visit is to investigate their greeting card market and promote the unique story behind the FairMail cards. We have set up the program to fulfill these goals. During the three weeks they will visit representatives of the fair trade community, product developers designing products with their pictures, publishers printing their cards and shops selling them. They have also been selected to present FairMail and their personal story at the central stage of the FAIR! B2B trade fair during two days in Dortmund, Germany. Also they will be meeting FairMail’s stock photography and “printing on demand” partners like Hollandse Hoogte and Greetz. On the 31^st of august they will be meeting FairMail’s end customers while selling FairMail cards to the visitors of the free Westerpop music festival in Delft, The Netherlands. Click here to download the complete schedule.

FairMail stand at Mundial music festival in 2012

This year the theme of the European promotional tour will be “Back to School”. In august most European children go back to school, with the media often reporting about school related novelties. This year we hope to interest them for the novelty that in Peru, India and Morocco teenagers are also going back to school. But not after a pleasant holiday like most kids in Europe, but in their case after a youth working as child laborers. Thanks to their hard work and the sale of their fair trade pictures they have been able to change their destiny. And now two of them are here in Europe, available for interviews. We are still looking for more media contacts willing to interview Yomira and Yuli. Please let us know if you have any contacts. You can download the press release here.

FairMail Peru photographer Yuli

Click here to contact us if you would like to meet Yuli and Yomira or join us on the tour for a day or so.

Tags: France, Germany, promotion, yomira, yuli
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