Posts Tagged ‘results’

Going to school with FairMail in India

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Thanks to your purchases of FairMail cards our teenage photographers in India can “go to school with FairMail”. So we thought it would be fun to take YOU to school in India. Below you can see how some of the teenagers from FairMail India go to their schools and what it is like there.

Ankita walks from her home to school with a friend:

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Anuj goes to school by bike, which he bought with his FairMail money. Before they go into class they pray together outside.
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Akaash and Anil walk together to their tutor. Both can’t go to an ordinary school yet, so they use their FairMail money to hire a private teacher and get them back to a normal school level.

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Anshu show FairMail pioneer Janneke where her school is.
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Sandhya’s school just moved. So she bought a bicycle with her FairMail money to get to her school. She even gets dancing lessons there!
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Kaushal goes to the same school as Sandhya and so he also bought a bike! He really enjoys the music lessons.
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FairMail now 100% biodegradable

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Good news for the planet: FairMail is now 100% biodegradable.

The cello bags we use to pack our folded greeting cards are now made from biodegradable corn starch. So after unpacking your card you can chuck it on the compost heap to fertilize your garden.

FairMail cards where already printed on FSC certified paper and the envelopes made of recycled paper. The only thing missing now is to persuade our Peruvian printer to switch to soy based bio-inks.

That might still take a little while, but you bet we want to give it a shot. So FairMail doesn’t only have a good social story, but, so the environment also benefits if people buy FairMail cards in stead of ordinary cards.

Just look at how happy that makes our card packers!

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