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Category Archives: Africa
Gender Education Module
Camara is delighted to announce the completion of its Gender Education Module. While our core objective is to improve formal educational attainment, there is clearly huge potential for technology to advance social issues. To date we’ve developed material around both HIV/AIDS Education and Disability, with Nutrition on the way. Mainstreaming these issues [...]
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Thinking of Volunteering in Africa? Read about how Gillian got on last year.
Tugende Uganda!
Last summer, I was fortunate enough to undertake a volunteer trip with Camara Education to Uganda. Camara is an Irish charity, founded in 2005, which is dedicated to using technology to deliver education to disadvantaged communities in Africa. Camara is a West African word that means ‘one who teaches with experience’. Indeed, founder, Cormac [...]
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Kiliminjaro climb for Camara
It’s the New Year. Want to get fit ? and take on a challenge ? That’s just what Pádraig Ó Murchú did when he decided to set himself the challenge of climbing Kiliminjaro and in the process raise funds for Camara. Pádraig and a small group of friends decided to take on this challenge so [...]
Positive News
Given that we’ve been slipping on quite a number of tables recently, it’s nice to be beating the Scandinavians at something!
Using computers to teach maths
As a fully paid-up Ted obsessive- I thought this was really useful. He’s a mathematician and thus not quite as captivating as a human would be making the same point, but really interesting anyway
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Camara’s GM on his way to Africa
10,000 metres above the Mediterranean is the location for my first Camara blog! As I look down to the deep blue sea I remember a book I read recently (“I am Justice” by Paul Kenyon) which describes an African’s journey to the promised land of Europe. It also brings back memories of 11 years ago [...]
Camara work with Action Zambia
Action Zambia bought 100 computers from Camara last April. During their visit to Zambia in June/July they signed agreements with 5 schools in Kalomo and Lusaka for the delivery of these computers. They also met with the local Ministry of Education officer ( DEBs) who agreed to oversee the installation of the machines as well [...]
Cormac’s African Diary 6th-8th July, 2010
Tuesday July 6th 2010
Stone Town – Mombasa
Rob Stringer RIP
Nearly a year ago on August 7th, 2009 at 12noon, I arrived back at
Camara’s workshop in Dublin to be met at the door by Hester Jackman,
our Volunteer Coordinator. She asked me to come up to her office where
two other members of staff were waiting, and [...]
The Development Book Corner
This is pretty self-explanatory. All part of my endeavours to make the Africa section a bit more interesting by the day
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Development Book Corner