Working with FairMail

It is now approximately 3 months that I am back from Peru and I cannot even count ahow many times I´ve been asked: “So, how did you like Peru?”. Located within 3 different landscapes the country is 3,598351476056086 times bigger than Germany. According to Wikipedia and my calculator. It not only inhabits the spring of the Amazonas,…

FairMail

Ich bin jetzt seit knapp drei Monaten wieder aus Peru zurück und kann schon gar nicht mehr zählen, wie oft mir die Frage: „Und, wie war Peru?“ gestellt wurde. Dabei fällt mir dann immer wieder auf, wie wenig ich eigentlich von den typischen Reisezielen gesehen habe, von denen Peru Unmengen zu bieten hat. In 3…

Travelphorography – soccer with the Fairmail team

In Peru I worked with Fairmail. A small organization helping kids to earn money with photography. One day we organized a fun little soccer game with another NGO called Mundo de ninos. A lot of the teenagers in Fairmail are recruited from Mundo de ninos. This day has helped to bring the kids of both…

Travelling with Cystic Fibrosis

I hate it. I hate talking about my medical condition. On the one hand I do not enjoy satisfying people´s curiosity and on the other hand, which is the bigger part, I do not wish to give this sickness any room. I refuse to let it determine my every day live, I refuse to let…

Peruvian bus rides

Today, for the first time, I have used one of these battered, little VW busses for a drive between Huanchaco and Trujillo and first of all I would like to take the opportunity here to very briefly describe this experience as the following: What. The. Actual. Fuck. These busses are literally the live equivalent to…

Alternative Peru – english version

Lima grows and grows and grows and probably „rampant growth“ would be a much more exact choice of words. According to the German Department of Foreign Affairs the average yearly growth of population is around 1.13 percent. Within the last 50 years the population of the inner city octuplicated and two-thirds of the overall population…