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From Mud to Money

Thursday, February 4th, 2016
Angeles' winning fair trade photograph

Angeles’ winning fair trade photograph

The building site of FairMail’s future office in the Casi Casa complex already proved useful as background for a tailor made card order from one of our corporate customers.

The Dutch eco-building company “Building Traditions” asked our teenagers to come up with an image transmitting the company’s values: diversity, sustainability and cooperation. As Building Traditions offers eco-friendly mud built housing solutions to its clients the FairMail teenagers needed a nice and quiet place with a lot of mud to work on their ideas!

After drawing their ideas on paper and presenting it to their fellow team members they got to work, often inviting little brother, sisters and neighbours as models for their fair trade photographs. Besides using Casi Casa as photography set the kids also took pictures at local archaeological sites (the world’s largest mud city Chan Chan), at a mud brick factory and in their own neighbourhoods.

FairMail Peru photographer Angeles

FairMail Peru photographer Angeles

In the end 18 year old Angeles shot the winning image of her niece playing with mud in the street where they live. Christo, Building Traditions director, choose this fair trade image for their corporate card to send to their customers and relations. Angeles received 60% of the profit FairMail made to invest in her own education. Money that  was very welcome as she is currently preparing for the university entrance exam to study Social Work.

Building Traditions fair trade E-card

Building Traditions fair trade E-card

If you would also like the FairMail teenagers to go on a photography assignment for you, please contact us here so we can send you more information.

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Program announcement European promotional tour with Peruvian teenagers

Friday, May 1st, 2015
FairMail Peru photographer Angeles

FairMail Peru photographer Angeles

FairMail is organizing its 5th European promotional tour! This time guest starring FairMail Peru’s teenage photographers Anidela (16) and Angeles (17).

We are now ready to announce an action packed programme for their visit to Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. During their 17 day visit they will be telling their personal story behind their unique fair trade greeting cards to as many people as possible, plus investigating “their” greeting card market. And not to forget, making their trip of a lifetime as they have never been outside of Peru or in an airplane before!

FairMail Peru photographer Anidela

FairMail Peru photographer Anidela

Below you can find their scheduled photography exposition, school visits, photography workshops, meetings with their clients, festival attendances and trade fair presentations. Please feel free to join along and meet Anidela and Angeles in person. Also if you have any tips and suggestions on how to get their story across in local or national media, please contact us here.

Below you can watch the video we made for the 2013 promotional tour. The video for this year will come out soon!

Program FairMail Promotional tour 2015

Date Activity Comments
Tuesday 16th of June 20.15 Departure from Lima, Peru
Wednesday 17th of June 15.40 Arrival in Amsterdam
Thursday 18th of June 10.00 sightseeing Amsterdam and interviews

15.00: Visit customer www.Greetz.nl in Amsterdam

 Opportunity for interviews with press
Friday 19th of June 17.00 – 19.30 Official kick-off event at Naarden photography festival Opportunity for interviews with press
Saturday 20th of June 7.00 Driving to Bad Hersfeld, Germany

14.00 Presentation at fair trade fair in Bad Hersfeld
Sunday 21st of June 10.00 Driving to Hamburg, Germany

15.00 meeting with FairMail Distrubution partner in Hamburg
Monday 22nd of June 10.00 Marketing workshop with FairMail distribution partner

Sightseeing Hamburg

 Opportunity for interviews with press
Tuesday 23rd of June 10.00 Drive to Ludwigsburg

18.00 – 19.30 Opening FairMail photo exhibition Ludwigsburg

20.00 Photo excursion Ludwigsburg

 Opportunity for interviews with press
Wednesday 24th of June 10.00 Visit Mörike-Gymnasium

13.30 Visit Weltladen

15.00 Driving to Rosmalen, the Netherlands

 Opportunity for interviews with press
Thursday 25th of June 11.00 Presentation to buyers of fair trade shops in FairPlaza, Culemborg, The Netherlands

13.00 Visit Dutch logistic center and visit selling points with Dutch sales representative in Culemborg, The Netherlands

 Opportunity for interviews with press
Friday 26th of June Free day Opportunity for interviews with press
Saturday 27th of June Festival photography and card sales at Festival Mundial in Breda the Netherlands Opportunity for interviews with press
Sunday 28th of June Festival photography and card sales at Festival Mundial in Breda the Netherlands Opportunity for interviews with press
Monday 29th of June Drive to Gent, Belgium

Photo exhibition Gent

 Opportunity for interviews with press
Tuesday 30th of June Drive to Fair trade Municipality in Tervuren, Belguim

10.00 Visit Oxfam fair trade store in Tervuren, Belgium

12.00 Sightseeing in Tervuren and Brussels, Belgium

19.00 Opening of FairMail photo exhibition in Tervuren

 Opportunity for interviews with press
Wednesday 1st of July 11.00 Presentation at FairCraftCentre in Bierbeek, Belgium and sightseeing in Leuven Opportunity for interviews with press
Thursday 2nd of July Write marketing report and make presentation
Friday 3rd of July 12.30 Departure from Amsterdam
Saturday 4th of July Arrival back in Lima

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Four Peruvian teenagers graduate from high school

Friday, January 30th, 2015
Diana, Jorge and Angeles with their high school certificates

Diana, Jorge and Angeles with their high school certificates

As you can read in FairMail’s second yearly social impact report, 2014 was a great year for most of our Peruvian FairMail (ex-) participants: half of the team graduated from high school! A big congratulations to Anidela (16), Angeles (17), Diana (16) and Jorge (18) for persevering in their high school years.

Angeles already graduated in the beginning of the year. Since then she is studying extremely hard at the private Kepler academy, preparing for the exam to enter the national university of Trujillo on the 15th of March. This is the hardest university to get into and her public high school level isn’t high enough so that is why she invests in this expensive academy. Her grades during the trial exams are very promising but as she says herself she shouldn’t become overconfident and relaxed. To be continued…

Jorge with his certificate

Jorge with his certificate

Jorge finished high school in June as he attended a weekend school aimed at people who need to combine their high school with work. Since then, besides attending FairMail, he has been working and orienting on his further education. This month he is enrolling to study as chef and as driver/mechanic of heavy vehicles. He hopes to combine working as a cook on the short term with finishing the heavy vehicles course on the long term. This would allow him to get a well-paid job in a construction company in one of the many new mines in Peru.

Diana with her certificate

Diana with her certificate

Diana just finished high school in December, in the same school as Angeles. Instead of taking well deserved summer holiday’s she went straight on taking summer courses. In March she will start a 5 year communication sciences study at the Cesar Vallejo private university in Trujillo.

Anidela also finished in December, in second place of her high school class. She is also skipping summer holidays to attend the preparatory academy for the Leonardo de Vinci private university in Trujillo. In March she will start to fulfill her long cherished dream of studying business administration at the university with the scholarship she earned.

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