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No thanks! ;)

By eoghan | Published: July 30, 2010
Once a month, the wheels turn and the process of loading the container occurs. We would like to thank all of those who contribute to turning these wheels. If your mentioned, pat your own back, your brillant and thank you. Thanks Ita for processing the laptops. We believe that a busy volunteer is a happy volunteer [...]
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Decision Time. Responsible Recycling or Ethical Reuse!

By eoghan | Published: July 5, 2010
‘Householders and businesses in Ireland discard over 250,000 computers every year’. This in itself signifies the importance of computer equipment reuse. The environment is at risk and the best solution lies in reuse of equipment before eventual recycling. Think “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” as each discarded computer will get an opportunity to be reused before compliant [...]
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Birth of a service in Galway

By eoghan | Published: June 2, 2010
GMIT has successfully incubated a Camara hub from inception in January of this year to getting it’s wings in late June. The proud parents of the social enterprise are the GMIT 3rd year Service Learning class who successfully nurtured the ambitious program, pictured below receiving their student achievement awards from GMIT. They were tasked to run [...]
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Camara Kenya Launch

By eoghan | Published: March 9, 2010
Camara Kenya had their official launch on Thursday 12th November 2009 at their hub on the MITC Campus, Mombasa. The launch was held to inform the Kenyan public about what we do and are able to do. We also had an open day for the public to tour the hub and get to know us better. The guest [...]
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Camara Kenya receive 1st shipment of 2010

By eoghan | Published: February 18, 2010
Dear All, Camara-Kenya team would like to thank you all for making this possible. You can enjoy the pictures showing the container arrival and unpacking twenty minutes ago on Flickr Daudi. CEO, CAMARA EDUCATION LTD KENYA LOCATION: MOMBASA DIGITAL HUB [MITC] MOMBASA – MALINDI ROAD NEXT TO KRA SCHOOL P.O. BOX 1039 GPO-80100 MOMBASA KENYA
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One Who Teaches With Experience – part2

By eoghan | Published: January 9, 2010
Camara Kenya Guest Expedition 09 by Mitchell O’Gorman Everywhere we went in the Camara van we were greeted with waves and smiles. It’s clear that awareness of Camara’s is growing. Our driver Joshua, another remarkable man who volunteers as a driver for Camara, works as a preacher, and wants to become a computer technician through the [...]
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One Who Teaches With Experience – part1

By eoghan | Published: January 6, 2010
Spreading the Light of Camara Camara Kenya Guest Expedition 09 by Mitchell O’Gorman (Newmarket Consulting) It wasn’t easy getting there, as I had to suffer the worry of waiting for my passport to make the trip to Dublin and back to London without me as we waited for our Kenyan Airways connection in Heathrow, but it was [...]
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2010:)

By eoghan | Published: December 31, 2009
Happy new year to all our volunteers & staff. We hope you remember some of your achievements in 2009 and everyone in Camara wishes all of you a wonderful 2010. Your contributions and efforts always amaze us. We simply could not operate without you. If you have a new years resolution to change the lives [...]
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Christmas Cake Sale

By eoghan | Published: December 22, 2009
Camara staged its first annual Christmas Cake Sale at the Delicious Cáfe in the Digital Depot on Friday December 4th. The event was attended by many and turned out to be a complete success, raising €490. This once again demonstrated the generosity of the Digital Hubs employees and the support (once again) of Camara as their charity. Congratulations [...]
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Hooks Truck!

By eoghan | Published: December 17, 2009
You may see George Hook in his truck on his way to Camara this Christmas. Listen in below: The “Camara learning campaign” helps to fund the shipping costs, which work out at €10 per computer and will help deliver technology that will affect the lives of over 150,000 children in Africa. We are asking to donate [...]
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