Since our last newsletter the first orders for tailor made corporate Christmas cards are coming in.
Did you already tell your boss how he or she can spice up their end-of-year communication making use of one of FairMail’s fair trade Christmas pictures? And at the same time help the dreams of one of our teenage photographers come true?
Nowadays most companies and organisations are aware of their Corporate Social Responsibility and actually have a CSR policy in place. However they find it is often not so easy to communicate this to the outside world. That’s where FairMail comes in. We made it very easy for your employer to fulfil and express its social engagement by using a FairMail photo for corporate Christmas cards, e-cards, social media, website or publications.
Make a visible difference with a fair trade photograph
It is really easy to make your message fair trade and show the rest of the world that you care. All you have to do is:
1) Find the pictures you want in our on-line photo gallery. (click here for the Christmas photographs)
2) Send us the text or logo you would like on the card.
3) Tell us the size of the card (ex. A5 or A6) or other product you are interested in.
Then we get to work on the design for you. You will receive a digital sample of the design for your approval before we send it to the printer.
FairMail, trusted by:
Many other companies and organisations have chosen to express their social involvement making use of a tailor made FairMail product, like these companies for example:
Previous customers of FairMail’s tailor made corporate cards
According to Elly Bal, communications officer at the ASN Bank “With photos from FairMail you help children in Peru build a good future for themselves.”
Click here if you would like to receive a price quote.
Read all the details about our B2B offering in our digital flyer.
Nowadays most companies and organisations are aware of their Corporate Social Responsibility and actually have a CSR policy in place. However they find it is often not so easy to communicate this to the outside world. That’s where FairMail comes in. We made it very easy for your employer to fulfil and express its social engagement by using a FairMail photo for corporate Christmas cards, e-cards, social media, website or publications.
Make a visible difference with a fair trade photograph
It is really easy to make your message fair trade and show the rest of the world that you care. All you have to do is:
1) Find the pictures you want in our on-line photo gallery. (click here for the Christmas photographs)
2) Send us the text or logo you would like on the card.
3) Tell us the size of the card (ex. A5 or A6) or other product you are interested in.
Then we get to work on the design for you. You will receive a digital sample of the design for your approval before we send it to the printer.
FairMail, trusted by:
Many other companies and organisations have chosen to express their social involvement making use of a tailor made FairMail product, like these companies for example:
Previous customers of FairMail’s tailor made corporate cards
According to Elly Bal, communications officer at the ASN Bank “With photos from FairMail you help children in Peru build a good future for themselves.”
Click here if you would like to receive a price quote.
Read all the details about our B2B offering in our digital flyer.
Vote for your favorite new FairMail photo’s
Did you know you can actually help decide which of the pictures taken by our teenage photographers make it to a new FairMail card? Every month we upload over 200 new fair trade pictures onto the FairMail website. After clicking on a photo you like you can click on the “I like this” heart below the picture to register your vote.
This is this month’s top 20 so far.
Our card designers and publishers are always interested to see which pictures appeal to the FairMail fans so they can consider using it on a new FairMail card. So go on and make use of your “democratic right” to decide which teenager will get his or her new FairMail card soon! Vote here.
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
Participating yoga photograph
We are very proud that 26 yoga pictures by Peruvian and Indian FairMail teenagers made it to this year’s semi-finals of the “Children’s Yoga Photography Competition”.
Together with selected images by photographers from all over the world they are competing to make it to the final selection for this year’s Devayani Yoga’s Children’s Charity Calendar.
During one month the images are posted on Devayani’s Facebook page. Only the 12 images with the most likes by the end of July make it to the calendar. 100% of the profit made from the sale of the calendar will be distributed amongst 12 different children’s charities, amongst which the education funds of the different participating FairMail teenagers. That is why they need your votes now!
Participating yoga photograph
To vote all you have to do is:
1. First like Devayani Yoga’s Facebook site here.
2. Like all the separate yoga images you like here.
You can vote for was many pictures as you want. Thank you so much for your support!
Helping out FairMail
Dare to Ask is a popular phenomenon in the Netherlands based on the idea that when people ask for what they truly want, the chances they will actually get it increases considerably. After all, there are plenty of people that are more than happy to help you along in realizing your dream. Imagine all the missed opportunities of people being happy to share exactly what you need for free, but not doing it because they didn’t have a clue you were looking for it. The scale of missed opportunities on a global level is huge! Dare to Ask makes “social surplus” visible and put it to good use.
In other words; why not share with FairMail what you don’t use and ask for what you could use that FairMail might have “lying around”? Below you can find a list of things FairMail could use that perhaps you can help us find:
– PR and Marketing advise. We could use the help of a professional PR agency to help us make our promotional activities more effective. We have a great story to tell, but how do we get it out there?
– Video of FairMail teenagers. On our new website (coming soon!) we want to include a personal video about each FairMail teenager on their personal profile page. Who would like to dive into their lives and tell their personal stories in short 1 minute videos?
Volunteer as photography trainer
– Volunteer Photography Trainers in Peru. The FairMail team in Peru is looking for enthusiastic volunteers with a passion for photography, who speak Spanish and have 6 weeks to give photography training in Peru. Do you know anyone looking for this enriching experience?
– Television and media contacts. For our upcoming promotion tour with the two Peruvian FairMail teenagers we are looking for journalists and other media contacts in Germany, France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Switzerland.
– Things to do for our teenagers during Promotion tour. For our upcoming promotion tour with the two Peruvian FairMail teenagers we are looking for places to visit and people to guide us. Places that are interesting for the teenagers to see (schools, cities, landmarks), but also places where they can promote their cards (festivals, shops, fair trade towns). Do you live in Germany, France, The Netherlands, Belgium or Switzerland and would you like to help make this the teenagers’ trip of a life time, then please get in contact with us!
If you have any suggestions, please get in contact with us by clicking here.
FairMail Photography Trip
Will you be travelling next year with the Peruvian & Indian teenagers in search of the best pictures? The four trips for next year are now available online. Besides giving yourself a unique trip, you also give the same trip to one of the FairMail teenagers. That way giving them the opportunity to get to know their own country better and to take new pictures for their greeting cards.
On the 9th of February there is an information session at 15.00 in Oegstgeest (The Netherlands) for those who want to learn more. For more information or to register please contact us by clicking here.
FairMail Photography Trip
FairMail volunteer photography trainer
FairMail wouldn’t exist without the work of many international volunteer photography trainers who teach photography every week in Peru, India and Morocco. On average there are 2 volunteers per country at the same time who prepar 3 to 5 classes per week during the 2 months they work for FairMail. In an earlier blog we reported what this experience means from the volunteer perspective. But what to the FairMail teenagers think about their volunteer photography trainers? We asked the Indian teenagers:
– if the volunteers weren’t there, we could not learn about photography, so we would not be able to earn money
– they are our guest, so we have to take care of them
– because they give us ideas and projects to work on
– because the volunteers teach us about their countries
– they inspire us
– having ideas about what to teach us
– the weak students should be encouraged by them
– they should be good teachers
– needs to be patient
– it is good when they introduce new photographers
– they will see India and the Indian culture, living circumstances,
– help us to grow further
– because the project is a good project where you can help people
– because they can also travel around Varanasi (e.g. Ghats)
– the weather, some volunteers get sick because of it
– the trash/dirt outside
– they can find the amount of people in India difficult/ crowd situation
– language problem
– people on the street might comment
– they are most welcome, because through them we can learn. They can also tell us things from their own experience, not what they have learnt in books.
– We want you to come to India to come and see our country, see the colours, festivals, etc.
– We need help for taking better pictures.
To learn more about the opportunities about volunteering for FairMail in Peru, India or Morocco, click here.
Helping the teenagers during a photography trip
Yes, you are not mistaking. By helping FairMail you have the chance to win a free FairMail photography trip in Peru or India worth 600 euro.
All you have to do is give us the golden tip about who is in charge of the Christmas cards or e-cards at your employer and give us their personal details. Then we can approach him or her to lay down our offer to make tailor made Christmas or e-cards for your employer.
With a FairMail Christmas card you send a message that really touches people: showing how deprived teenagers work on their own future in a positive way using their creativity. With the chosen Christmas picture comes the personal story about the photographer and the direct link to who is being supported with the purchase of the card.
You can find more information about the tailor made Christmas and e-cards in this digital flyer.
From all the tips that end up in an assignment for FairMail we will select one person who can come for free on an all expenses paid 10 day FairMail photography trip with one friend. (You do have to pay for your own airplane ticket to the starting point of the trip in Peru or India).