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Category Archives: Fundraising
Christmas Cake Sale
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 [...]
Posted in Fundraising Tagged Cake sale, Christmas Cake Sale, Delicious Cáfe, Fundraising, Thanks, The Digital Depot, The Digital Hub, Volunteers 1 Comment
Hooks Truck!
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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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 [...]
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Jungle Fever
Hi,
Here I am on my balcony in Kampala, Uganda on a Sunday evening with a large glass of white enjoying the sun going down and waiting for my double cheese burger and chips takeway order, my wife is away, what is a man to do? My thoughts turn to the fact that I need to [...]
Google and RoboSteel: July 31, 2009
On Friday, July 31, Google organised with RoboSteel and Camara a charity raffle of an alien made from recycled material at Google’s European Headquarters on Barrow St. Google has recently donated 59 servers to Camara which will be invaluable for Camara’s IT infrastructure.
RoboSteel donated a unique and beautiful hand crafted Alien sculpture for the raffle [...]
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Thanks A Million! July 28, 2009
A huge thank you to all of you who participated in Flora Mini-Marathon. You raised €18,118.62. This amount covers the cost of refurbishing and equipping 14 schools, or 2 schools in each of our 7 African countries of operation, with computer labs, educational software, and IT teacher training. On average each of these schools has [...]
Kenya Prize Draw
Today, we held the Prize Draw for the Kenya Prize.
The Winner of the Draw is Dr Barbara Dooley.
Thanks very much to Monika Harkin of DCTV, the company who works next door to Camara, who did the draw for us. Also to Bernie Adamson and Kurt Gawinowicz who were our two witnesses.
Each fundraiser who had raised [...]
The Great Bag Packing Experience!
From Thursday 4th of June – Saturday June 6th a team of us bagpacked at Dunnes Stores, The Swan Centre, Rathmines, in order to fundraise for Camara Africa 09 project. A group of friends from work joined me on a very wet Saturday morning to help out. The response we got from customers was very [...]
One Who Teaches With Experience – part2