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Grab your chance to decide which pictures becomes a new FairMail card. By voting on the great niew pictures in FairMail’s online fotogallery YOU decide which teenager will get a new card and thus earn money to go and study. Once every three months the picture with the most votes automatically get printed on a new FairMail card. Click hier for the overview of the newest pictures to start voting.

The last round was won by Elmer from FairMail Peru. His picture of this funny lama got 68 votes and has already been printed on a FairMail card which is on its way to Europe. In april it should be available in our webshop.

Enjoy yourself voting!

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In July and August FairMail is organizing together with Commundo two adventurous photography trips to Northern Peru. Together with FairMail’s teenage photographers you will be travelling to the Peruvian Andes for 10 days loooking for pictures for the new card catalogue.

During the diverse trip you will be travelling through the dry desert coast and the high Andean mountain range where visits to cities, towns the rural countryside and nature are alternated. Every area has its own typical population and culture. Capturing the images that go with that is the goal of the trip. The destinations we visit are still hardly visited by tourists which guarantee authentic photography moments. In which it is your role to explain to the teenagers what kind of pictures the western consumers like to see on FairMail cards!

On the trip from the 24th of July untill the 14th of August there is still space for a few participants who want to join this unique experience. To get in contact with Commundo send an email to: info@commundo.nl. but be quick because there are only a few places left to fill in the small group!

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FairMail Peru has a new rising star in teenage photographer Yuli Silva Acuna. Just how did she do that? Well by taking some very succesfull pictures of STAR- fruits and STAR-flowers she sold more then 35.000 cards over the past 4 months, an absolute record for a FairMail teenager! Especially if you consider Yuli is only 16 years old!

Two of her pictures got selecte by a major Dutch retail chain for their Christmas cards, one for FairMail’s normal Christmas card set and two by a German  distributor. How much money Yuli will be making with these sales will be known next week when the 50% profit over the third quarter is calculated. But here earnings so far are sure to double at least!

Yuli’s big dream at the moment is to study communication sciences at a private university in Trujillo, Peru. That seems interesting to her because she can keep learning about photography but also choose from other specialisations like business communication or graphic design. A 5 year study like that costs about 6.500 euro’s, so she is not quite there yet.

Yuli is one of the FairMail teenagers that live in El Milagro, the part of Trujillo right next to the huge garbage dump. Luckily she and her family aren’t working there anymore. Her father has a temporary contract in a mine about 8 hours away and can even invest in their house now. Her mother takes care of the home and tries to earn a few soles extra selling delicious « papa rellena’s » and « ceviche » in the weekends.

Read more about Yuli, send her an email, look at her pictures or order her cards by clicking here.

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For 2011 we have already prepared 6 new photography trip destinations in Peru and India. In January there are two trips high up into the Peruvian Andes. In March we will be travelling along tow of India’s most holy rivers. And in July we will be visiting fair trade coffee farmers in the Peruvian cloud forest twice. And in november 2011 we will be travelling to India again. Read the travel descriptions and departure dates by clicking here.

Besides the destinations the most unique thing about this trip is you travel together with the Indian and Peruvian teenage photographers. Travelling together gives you much more contact with the locals and the chance to understand India and Peru from the inside! Taking pictures together provide the best opportunity to do so.

If you would like to know more click here to get in contact with Peter from FairMail.

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Wouldn’t it be great if you, your colleagues and your customers/relations received a personalized FairMail Christmas card this year? Like this one made by teenage photographer Jorge for Unique Child Care.

You only have to do one heroic act: bring us in contact with the person in charge for the Christmas Cards. A digital flyer of what we have to offer can be found by clicking here.

If you are interested we can also send you a paper version with pricelist by mail. Our experience tells us that it works best if you hand over the information personally to your collegue in charge of Christmas cards. After that we can take over the contact and deal with the special wishes and give a detailed price quote.

Wouldn’t it be great if all your collegues receive a FairMail Christmas card this year, thanks to you?

If you want to help us, click here to contact us .

Thanks in advance!

FairMail Christmas flyer webview (PDF, 1,7 Mb)