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Choose Rwanda
By Maria Mulhall – Idea stolen from Laura Mc Guigan’s entry ‘Choose Ethiopia’
Choose Rwanda. Choose being called ‘this one’. Choose goat brochette. Choose boda-bodas. Choose choosing between Mutzig and Primus. Choose Kinyarwanda. Choose Byumba. Choose a chorus of mzungu twenty-four-seven. Choose surge protectors, 2-pin plugs and extension leads. Choose learning something new every second. [...]
Camara @The Festival
To all Camara friends coming to the Dun Laoghaire World Music Festival this weekend
Please come by and visit us at the Camara stand. We will be there from 12pm-6pm Saturday and Sunday. There is North African Mint Tea being served all day at the Electric Souk and we will be talking about Camara, amidst bellydancers, [...]
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Kenya – week 3
Monday was the last day for the Intermediate ladies and they again got the short straw for being first up for the class – the internet and email demo on the PCs was too slow so they ended up writing their test papers inbetween screens refreshing as I tried to move through my inbox to [...]
Rwanda Experience
27th June – Day One – Brussels
After a lot of last minute packing and downloading updated skillbuilders I made it to the airport and met Niall. Our flight to Brussels was delayed for about 2 hours. I did the sleepy-head-banging thing for the whole flight and the Malarone was definitely taking affect with the crazy [...]
PWC Laptops Feedback
Camara would give a special thanks to PricewaterhouseCoopers, some of the Africa2008 volunteers have given feedback regarding the laptops that were donated earlier this year.
It was very useful having laptops with us for our 4 weeks in Rwanda. As we were given them a week before departure we could practice on the material that Camara [...]
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The Mubende Experience
After a great first week in Kampala we departed for our next stop, Mubende, on Sunday 13th July. The direction was west and approx. two and three quarter hours later bumping and zig-zagging on a poorly partly surfaced road we arrived in the rural town of Mubende. The journey itself was an experience not least [...]
"Tar a éis a thuigtear gach beart" ("It is afterwards that every event is understood.")
We did it! Ten of us met up in Dar es Salaam airport on the morning of the 6th of July and started on the long two-day bus journey to Songea in the far south. Having flown in from Dublin via London on a night flight, most of us were pretty groggy [...]
Tanzania Blog
Ray here, things went really well for the Tanzanian team, we all got on well and got lots of teaching done! We had a lot of travelling as we set out from Dar es Selam and went 1000 km South to Songea. It was quite cold
there. Then we went back to Dar and then on [...]
First few days in Tanzania
Two days done and over a thousand kilometres travelled. Daunting as it sounds, it was actually quite pleasant. Doireann, Colin and Monica had gone to Tanzania a week ahead of the rest of the group to make arrangements for our trip. They hired a bus and were waiting for us at the airport on [...]
Zambia blog