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Thurs Open

Happy New Year!!! The workshop will be open this Thurs evening, 5th Jan, for any volunteers who would like to come down and get stuck in.
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Closed on Thurs Evening

The Camara Workshop will be closed on Thurs 22nd Dec in the evening from 5pm. Thanks
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Help needed for CONTAINER on Tuesday

On Tuesday this week we are sending out our first shipment of computers from our new Chapelizod facilities. Packing will start at 10am and we will finish at 3pm (we hope). If you’re free and fancy a bit of a work out come on down and lend a hand packing the container, which is destined for our [...]
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Workshop Saturday Closing

The Camara Dublin workshop will be closed on Saturdays only from 24th July up to and including Sat 28th August.
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Uganda Team Blog

Howdy! Myself and Alex are currently in the hub in Fort Portal. Alex is doing some complicated networking stuff that I don’t understand in the slightest, so I thought I would play my part as a team member and contribute something to the blog It’s been fantastic out here so far. [...]
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2010 Volunteers head to Africa

It’s that time of year again and the first group of 2010 volunteers headed off to Africa last Saturday. Destined for Zambia, Rwanda and Uganda, the country team coordinators have set off in advance of the rest of their team to meet up with the Camara host partners and prepare for the IT training programmes [...]
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Workshop Closed Fri 18th June

The Dublin workshop will be closed on Friday 18th June. It will re-open on Saturday 19th June as normal at 11am. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. Thanks The Camara Team
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Carlow man Frank helps to bring computer & IT skills to Zambia

WHEN CARLOW MAN Frank Neenan found himself at a loose end after becoming unemployed, he didn’t sit around feeling sorry for himself. Instead, he travelled to Zambia for five weeks with volunteer organisation Camara, to help teach computer skills in two schools. ‘If you can leave your preconceptions, and your spa treatments, behind for a [...]
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Summer Volunteering Teaching in Lesotho

I had a very rewarding experience, for the month of July last year, teaching computers to teacher colleagues, in Lesotho, Africa, with an Irish charity called CAMARA.  Each year, during our summer holidays, teams of Camara volunteers travel to Africa to train teachers in the use of I.C.T skills, which they can then pass on [...]
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Call for teachers

This year we’ve had far fewer teachers applying for the Africa 2010 programme. No doubt due to the difficulties they are facing this year with reductions in pay and heavier workloads. Unfortunately, this has had a negative impact on Camara as we rely on the experience and skill sets which those in the teaching profession [...]
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