CURRENT MISSION

integrate into the community of Essaoueira, Morocco

ABOUT ME

I am a girl from 1976, so starting to get some wrinkles here and there...but I feel young and unsettled still and I love travelling. My work also requires a lot of travel: I set up and run a fair trade company together with my husband Peter: FairMail. We train teenagers in Peru, India and soon Morocco in photography and we market their best photos on greetings cards as stock photos. The teenagers earn money with their own photos for their education and housing. So my life goal is to give the opportunity to deprived teenagers to develop themselves and to take their future in their own hands.
FairMail is my life so if you want to see more about that see www.fairmail.info or our facebook: FairMail Cards.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is an exercise in becoming the best version of yourself. So find your talents and use them for a better world!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

In september I arrive in Essaouira, Morocco, to stay for 8 months, and I want to get a good start in Morocco by living with local people so that I can learn the language and customs and get to know the town of Essaouira from a local perspective. I will work as volunteer in a local NGO and will try to start up a FairMail Morocco with local teenagers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

no experience yet but I have shared houses with our FairMail volunteers a lot.

Interests

yoga, meditation, fairtrade, cycling, reading, beachlife, hiking, hammam, fair trade, working with teenagers, learning the Moroccan Arabic

• photography
• education
• exercise
• yoga
• running
• meditation
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• cars
• cycling
• hiking
• teaching
• volunteering

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-in Surinam my hosts let me sleep in their doublebed while they went to sleep on the couch....what a hospitality, that blew my mind!
-our guest from India got dizzy in Amsterdam from all the accelerating transport things we have: ferries, lifts, cars, trains, bicycles...he was only used to walking so this all was attacking his psysical balance!
- how there are ALWAYS great nice and helpful people everywhere you go....

Countries I’ve Visited

India

Countries I’ve Lived In

Morocco, Peru