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GAA legend Eugene McGee presents Cup for Irish Charities Corporate fundraiser
PRESS RELEASE – GAA legend Eugene McGee presents Cup for Irish Charities Corporate fundraiser
Photos: Peter O’Doherty
On Thursday 22nd October at 15:00, GAA All Ireland winner Eugene McGee presented the inaugural Camara Charity Cup to Mitchell O’Gorman and Clodagh O’Brien of Newmarket Consulting.
Newmarket and other companies participated in the Camara Charity Cup, a corporate fundraiser to [...]
Jenny Huston, The Annex, RTE 2's Blog
Join Jenny for the Mini Marathon
By Jenny Huston on April 14, 2009 12:43 PM | No Comments
I go to the free sessions on Tuesday evening. There are walkers and runners so come along and don’t be shy!
The Race to Educate
Join Camara at this years Flora Women’s Mini Marathon 1 June and come [...]
Camara in Rwanda
Following a few weeks of work by our representative in Rwanda, Dr Evode Mukama, we can now report that the Rwanda operation of Camara (“Camara Rwanda Ltd”) has been registered in Company House in Kigali and is now ready to operate.
Praise to Evode, who following a few previous attempts managed this process smoothly and [...]
UCD Staff Donate 186 computers for Tanzanian Schools
On a cold and wet Saturday morning a few volunteers arrived into to UCD. By lunch we had transported 186 computers, donated by UCD staff, to Camara HQ for refurbishment. The previous week through the combined effort of UCD Volunteers Overseas and UCD Services personnel a major initiative had been put in place to gather [...]
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8116
A huge thanks to all of the volunteers and placement students who helped pack our latest Africa bound container.
This ones going to Kenya with 436 computers, 24 network printers and 2 boxes of network cabling.
It brings our total number of refurbished computers this year to 8116.
Camara would also like to thank all of the private [...]
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Today is Blog Action Day
Today is Blog Action Day for 2008 and the theme this year is poverty. The idea behind the Blog Action Day is that 1000’s of bloggers across the globe will unite to discuss poverty in someway and in doing so “raise awareness, start a global discussion and add momentum to an important cause”.
It’s perhaps ironic [...]
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We need your votes for Camara.ie!
It’s Awards season and the Camara website, having already been nominated for 3 different categories in the Irish Web Awards, has also been shortlisted for best social contribution website in the IIA Net Visionsary Awards.
While the Irish Web Awards are judged by a select few the Net Visionary’s are decided on public votes – so [...]
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Camara short listed in Irish Web Awards
>>Linked blog from Catch Heidi.com
I’m delighted that Camara.ie has been short listed for 3 different categories for the Irish Web Awards!
And the categories are:
Most Useful Website
Best Technology Website
Best Education Website
This statistic always flabbergasts me… Did you know that businesses and individuals in Ireland will throw out over 1 million working computers over [...]
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The festival…
Thanks to all Camara’s friends and volunteers who helped out at our Port Whoopee Stand, at the Festival of World Cultures this weekend. It was a great opportunity to present Camara’s work to festival attendees and to raise awareness for our need for computers and mice through our mice campaign. Thanks very much to Dominic [...]
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World Environment Day