FairMail

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rating

4.8

Excellent

3

Reviews

17

Years in business

We train teenagers in photography, sell their best photos on greeting cards and offer the photographers a fair trade price for their sold photos.

FairMail is a social enterprise producing fair trade photo products.
The photos on FairMail products are taken by Indian, Peruvian and Moroccan teenagers. You see the face, name and age of the photographer on the back of each card. FairMail offers this youth photography training, a medical fund and ...

Review Description

FairMail is a social enterprise producing fair trade photo products.
The photos on FairMail products are taken by Indian, Peruvian and Moroccan teenagers. You see the face, name and age of the photographer on the back of each card. FairMail offers this youth photography training, a medical fund and guidance in making their future plans. The teenagers get 50% of the profits of the sale of their own photos to finance their housing and education.

Contact Person

Kira Beck

Spoken languages: English

FairMail reviews

Chiara Chizzini rating5.0

2019 at Photography Teacher

I felt in love with the Fairmail project and the people who make it. I volunteered for three months between 2018 and 2019 in Huanchaco, a small village on the Peruvian coast, where I participated in Fairmail activities as a photogrgrapher. In concrete terms, my work consisted of preparing ...
Maren Hechtl rating4.8

2019 at Photography Teacher

Amazing project and chances to get new experiences!! I really can recommend staying with the FairMail Team in Huanchaco. It's like staying with a second family. The kids who are in the project are wonderful and really talented. You can help them with your creativity and they will give you back ...
Cristina rating4.6

2017 at Photography Teacher

Without FairMail I would never have discovered the Peruvian culture from this close. Without FairMail I would never have discovered the Peruvian culture from this close. To have such a close experience to all of the students helped me to really get to know the local life in Huanchaco. Each ...