Spring has started and summer holidays won’t be long now. Do you have any holiday plans yet? Why not travel along with FairMail Peru’s teenage photographers to the most beautiful “off the beaten track” locations during one of FairMail’s photography trips?
During the 2 week trips you don’t only share the joy of taking pictures together and travelling with the locals, but you also treat one of the FairMail teenagers to a trip which they normally would never be able to afford. This way not only giving yourself a unique holiday experience, but also to one of our talented and motivated kids!
Travelling with the locals
For those interested in the trips we are organizing an information session about FairMail’s photography trips to Peru on Saturday the 6th of June from 3 to 5 pm in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
If you would like to join in or if you have any other questions about FairMail’s photography trips, please contact us here.
FairMail Peru team on the photography trip into the Peruvian Andes
In January the Peruvian FairMail teenagers set out on an unforgettable photography trip into the Peruvian Andes.
Accompanied by 4 foreign photography travelers and 2 volunteer photography trainers the group of 12 climbed up to 4.000 meters above sea level before descending again in the inter-Andean valley around Huamachuco, Peru. This proved to be the perfect base camp for excursions to nearby high altitude lakes, thermal hot springs, hikes to authentic Andean villages and pre-Inca ruins. The trip was the perfect mix between discovering off-the-beaten-track destinations, working hard on pictures for new FairMail cards and a lot of fun and laughter together. Check out the video we made of the trip to see for yourself:
There are three more FairMail photography trips planned for the coming months. Including a breath taking trip into the Cordillera Blanca in the end of July where we climb up to a beautiful 4.600 meter high glacial lake together. To learn more about FairMail’s photography trips, click here.
FairMail photography trip to the Cordillera Blanca
How about hiking to a bright blue glacier lake at the foot of the 6768 meter high Nevado Huascaran, the second highest mountain of South America? Or bathing under the 771 meter high Gocta waterfall, the third highest waterfall in the world?
These are just two of the activities during FairMail’s 4 new photography trips to Peru. Besides visiting beautiful off the beaten track destinations, the FairMail photography trips are unique because you get to travel together with FairMail’s teenage photographers! Together you share the joy of taking pictures. By travelling with the teenagers you don’t feel like a tourist at all and you can make deeper contact with the locals. For the teenagers it is an opportunity to hear directly from potential customers what kind of pictures people in the west like.
Below you can find an overview of the 4 upcoming trips that we have planned, starting at 650 euro for 11 days, all included.
FairMail Peru photographer Sebastian showing his Ben & Jerry Christmas card
Besides our new Christmas card collection, FairMail also offers beautiful and inspiring tailor made Christmas cards for companies and organizations. Perhaps this year also to your employer, your own company or someone else you know who would love to inspire others with a fair trade Christmas card this year? To get in contact with the right people we need your help! As sign of our gratitude we are giving away two free (!) photography trips in Peru to one of the people who helps FairMail get a corporate Christmas card order.
In this video FairMail founder Peter explains you how you can win a free photography trip for 2 in Peru?
Here is what can you win:
– Two 11 day photography trip’s for you and a person of your choice in Peru worth 1.300 euro’s in total. (airplane tickets NOT included!)
– You can choose which trip and when from the list of available trips on the FairMail website.
– You travel with a group of FairMail’s teenage photographers to an off the beaten track photography destination, sharing the joy of travelling and taking pictures together.
What do you have to do:
– All you have to do is send us (i) the name, (ii) e-mail and (iii) telephone number of the person at your employer who is in charge of the Christmas cards, Christmas gift packages or photography purchase so we can approach him or her with our offer for FairMail Christmas cards.
– An optional extra to help us out would be to print or e-mail this digital flyer stating FairMail’s offer for pre-printed or tailor made Christmas cards or e-cards. This way they can already have an idea of what we have to offer and you can help introduce it.
How are you helping FairMail:
All the pictures we are offering are taken by underprivileged teenagers in Peru and India. FairMail trains them in photography skills. They receive 50% of the profit FairMail makes to invest in their own education and housing. So by bringing us in contact with the person in charge of purchasing Christmas (e-) cards or photography you are introducing us to a potential client we would otherwise never come in contact with. If it turns into a sale for FairMail you are helping us find a market for our teenagers photographers and that way contributing to a better future for them.
So THANKS!
How do we choose the winner:
From all the people who sent us the required information (see “what you have to do” section above) we will randomly pick ONE winner from the tips that lead to a concrete FairMail Christmas (e-)card order.
The winner will receive notice by the 15th of December 2014 and be published in the first newsletter of 2015.
Employees of FairMail and business partners of FairMail are excluded from the competition.
What’s included:
– English speaking guide (founder of FairMail).
– All overnight stays in a shared room in hostels or with local families during the 11 day trip.
– All meals, except the first day in Trujillo, Peru.
– Transport during basic 11 day program.
– Entrance fees during basic 11 day program.
– Bus station or Airport pickup in Trujillo, Peru.
– Lunch meeting with the FairMail teenagers before departure
– Preparation Package
What isn’t included:
– Airplane tickets or other transport to the starting point of the trip (Trujillo, Peru)
– Any (taxi) transport besides the basic program
– Food en drinks besides the 3 daily meals.
– Photography equipment
– Optional tours around Trujillo, Peru
In August 5 Peruvian FairMail teenagers travelled with 5 foreign photography amateurs high into the Peruvian cloud forest. Besides taking pictures for the new FairMail cards, their goal was to learn more about the route an organic coffee bean takes from the field to the cup.
To do so we started in the tiny rural village of Sicches near the border with Ecuador. This little town, situated on the humid side of the Andes, is inhabited by farmers who are members of a fair trade coffee coop.
By staying with these farmers for a couple of days the teenagers learned not only about the coffee chain but also about how their fellow countrymen and -women live in a very different environment than the teenagers themselves are used to. After a few days of coffee harvesting, photo shooting and sugar cane cutting, the trip continued to the coffee processing plant. There the teenagers learned about the final stages of production before the coffee is exported to Europe.
If you fancy travelling with the teenagers on one of their next trips click here or come to the next information session on the 8th of November 2014 in Rosmalen, The Netherlands. To register or for more information about the information session please click here.
The FairMail India team just returned from a wonderful 10 day photography trip to the “Temples and Beaches of Orissa”.
This video shows how the teenage photographers, travelling with foreign tourists, got inspired by local fishing villages, ancient Hindu temples and touching the sea for the first time. Taking great new pictures for FairMail’s new card collection coming soon!
Watch the cheerful 4 minute video here:
To learn more here about your opportunity to join on one of the next photography trips to any of these five destinations in Peru and India, click here.
The 6 new scheduled photography trips, like this one to the Organic Coffee route, with the Peruvian and Indian teenagers now each have their own page detailing everything you want to know about the different trips, including videos and blogs from past participants.
According to past participants the good thing about traveling with the locals is that you don’t feel like a tourist. Getting closer to the locals allows you to take more unique pictures yourself while at the same time you are supporting the FairMail teenagers to take pictures for their new FairMail cards.
FairMail is a “proven business concept” that utilizes free resources to combat child labor. The only thing we need to succeed in is finding “local beauty”. This is captured by our teenage photographers with their cameras, after which they finance their own education with the sale of their fair trade images.
It sounds so easy, but where to look?
Everybody who likes taking pictures knows just how inspiring travelling to new places can be for your photography. Because the parents of the FairMail teenagers can’t afford to take their families on a holiday FairMail takes the teenagers to “off-the-beaten-track” destinations in Peru and India to take pictures. For example the trip to the North Peruvian Andes the Peruvian teenagers just returned from. Watch the video of the trip they made with 6 foreign photographers here:
Their best pictures taken during the trip will soon be available as stock photography, on-line and as printed greeting card, wall prints and other tailor made photography products which you can view here.
Are you interested to share the joy of taking pictures with our teenage photographers and help them out with their work? Then read more about FairMail’s photography trips here.
On Saturday the 22nd of February FairMail is opening its doors to people interested in FairMail’s photography trips. If you are interested to participate in this meeting which is held in Rosmalen, the Netherlands, contact us here.
A few weeks ago FairMail was featured in the new Dutch television program “Grensverleggers”. The national business TV channel is covering Dutch entrepreneurs running their social enterprises abroad to create social impact.
The 12 minute episode about FairMail shows the teenagers taking pictures for Ben & Jerry’s corporate Christmas cards on the beach, travelling on a photography trip into the Peruvian jungle and one of the FairMail founders trying to convince 15 year old Clever to stop working, earn money with FairMail and go back to school. Would he succeed do you think?
Working together on new FairMail Cards during the trip
The team of FairMail India just returned from their first photography trip to Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalaya’s accompanied by 4 photographers from Belgium and the Netherlands.
With this link you can watch the video of their trip among the mountains, lakes and temples of the Himalaya’s while taking pictures for the new FairMail cards.
For all of those interested in learning more about the 5 planned trips to Peru and India in 2013 and 2014 FairMail is organizing an information session on the 25 th of May in Oegstgeest the Netherlands from 15.00 till 17.00.
For more information or to register please click here.
Below you can watch the video made during the last trip:
