FairMail Cards B.V.

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FairMail is a company producing fair trade greeting cards with photos made in Peru, Morocco and India.

The photos on FairMail cards are taken by Indian and Peruvian underprivileged teenagers. On the back of every card you see the face, name and age of the photographer. FairMail offers this youth photography training, part-time work, medical insurance 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.

FairMail was founded in 2006 in Peru by the Dutch sociologist and entrepreneur Janneke Smeulders. In 2007 Janneke's partner Peter den Hond joined her in the company and since 2008 they run the Dutch FairMail office in Amsterdam together. In India the daily management of FairMail lies in the hands of local manager Akshay Kumar and in Peru this task is fulfilled by Renato Cerqueira Nuñez, helped by assistent manager Cinthia Vega Inga (who is a former FairMail photographer).