Welcome to the website of journalist Päivi Arvonen and Diamond Idea Company! 

I founded Diamond Idea Company in 2002 to co-ordinate my wide interests in various fields.

                       

I am a journalist and photographer, but I act also as a consultant especially in Cultural Communications, Human Relations and Travel issues.

At a moment I am staying in Cairo, Egypt, but I am free to move around the world. I am producing different kind of articles, reportages, columns and deep personal interviews with photos mostly to my customers in Finland (newspapers and magazines).  

Please have a look at some samples of my photos in GALLERIA.  

MY CONTACT INFORMATION can be found here.

Educational Background:

  • Professional Teacher of Psychology, Philosophy, Religious Education and Ethics

  • Major in Comparative Religion

  • MTheol, University of Helsinki

  • Minor in Special Education, Psychology, Philosophy and Ethics.

Working history:

  • From year 2001 independent journalist, photographer and consultant in Finland, Montenegro (Former Yugoslavia), Italy, Sweden and Egypt.

  • Until year 2000 I worked as a teacher (in the subjects mentioned above) for twelve years at all school grades of Finnish comprehensive school and upper secondary school and also as a Special Education Teacher and Tutor for Adult Education.   

Special Fields of Professional interests:

  • Cultures, Religions, Cultural Communication

  • Psychology and Human Relations

  • Development co-operation 

  • Education

  • Travel

  • Animal- welfare and environment

Memberships:

Language Skills:

  • Finnish (native)

  • English and Swedish  - professional level

  • French (reading and conversational skills)

  • Arabic (conversational skills)

  • Italy  and German (preliminary conversational skills)

Journalistic Awards:

  • February 2003, Egypt, to report about Finnish development aid projects, funded by the Department for International Development Cooperation of the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. 

  • November 2003, Sweden, to report to the Finnish audience about Swedish immigration policy issues, funded by the Nordic Council journalist grant.  

  • May -October 2004, and year 2006-2007 Egypt, to study arabic language, funded by several Finnish journalistic associations.

  • Autumn 2008, to report about Finnish development aid projects in India, founded by the Departement for International Development Cooperation of the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

 

Free-time activities:

  • I consider my present work merely as way of living more than  an occupation.

  • I do enjoy also opera, ballet and classical music, good food and drink,  sea and nature, animals, reading, philosophical thinking and conversations with friends

  • My soul rests  also during long  solitary walks in (Finnish) nature or anywhere next to water

  • One of the most important things in my life is to follow my heart and to be faithfull to my dreams

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  • "True freedom is the freedom to always choose the right option"

  • "To whom I give part of my time, the whom I give part of  my life"

  • "Treat the others the way you would like to be treated"

  • "What goes around, comes around - sooner or later"

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