Video update by FairMail Peru photographer Anidela
The great thing about the FairMail cards is that you can see on the back of each card who you are supporting directly with your purchase. Each FairMail teenager has his or her own story about dreams, hardships, passions and getting ahead in life.
We have now updated the personal profile pages of our current photographers in Peru with 9 new recorded video updates. You can view all of them below or on each teenager’s personal profile page.
FairMail’s new fair trade greeting card collection
We are very proud to present FairMail’s 2016 summer collection consisting of 16 great new fair trade greeting cards.
Nearly all of the Peruvian teenagers contributed with one or more of their fair trade photo’s to the new card series, developed in cooperation with FairMail’s German publisher Goldbek.
New fair trade greeting cards
Have a look at the 16 new cards in FairMail’s web shop by clicking here. (Click on the German flag in the top right hand corner if you want to see ALL the new German cards)
Medalit’s first German FairMail card
An important lesson in life
A special mention goes out to 16 year old Medalit, who managed to get her first German FairMail card. A big motivator for her and proof that the improved motivation she was showing over the past few months, does pay off with something positive she can be proud of. A life lesson we hope Medalit will remember.
FairMail Peru photographer Paul telling about his highs and lows
For the Peruvian teenagers 2015 was a year full of broken bones, broken friendships, getting first place, getting promoted, valuable lessons in life and many other things.
Especially for you, we asked the teenagers to update their personal profile pages with last year’s highs and lows. Plus their plans for the coming year, explaining how they plan to use their part of the earnings from the sale of their fair trade FairMail cards to enter university, study English and start a new business among other things.
Click here to read their own stories.
We also uploaded short new videos of the 4 newest FairMail teenagers presenting themselves which you can view below:
The three new FairMail teenagers
The FairMail family just expanded with 3 new members! Since April Medalit, Angelica and Paul are working hard to fully understand their new camera’s and get a grasp of the basics of digital photography.
Getting this far is already quite an achievement for them. A group of 5 teenagers started a trial period in March to fill the 3 upcoming vacancies. The 5 teenagers were put forward by the local charities FairMail collaborates with as they all could do with a bit of support to stay on the right track in life.
During the month long trial period they all got a basic photography training and the chance to convince us that they were the ideal candidates to make optimal who would make optimal use of the opportunities FairMail would be providing. Simply by showing us their motivation both for FairMail as for school, by getting to the photography classes in time, being responsible with our camera’s and friendly with our other team members.
Angelica with her proud parents
After one month 3 teenagers convinced us that they would be able to take maximum advantage of the free camera and training we would provide them with. They were very happy and proud when they heard the news. But also a bit sad for the 2 teenagers who unfortunately weren’t accepted for FairMail (yet).
We wish Paul, Angelica and Medalit all the best the coming years and hope to be able to show you their first FairMail card soon. On their personal profile pages you can already read more about them, connect with them through Facebook or by email and vote on their first photos. They have got so much talent!