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Category Archives: PC Recycling
Irish Cricketer smashes Jamie Heaslip’s Record
Ace Irish Cricketer Trent Johnston took on the ‘Camara Container Challenge’ and set a new record in packing a 40ft container with 600 computers bound for disadvantaged communities in Jamaica. Johnston joined up with the Irish charity Camara Education, who specialise in providing e-Learning in disadvantaged communities in Africa, Ireland and now Jamaica. Camara Education [...]
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Some more In-Country equipment donations
Camara’s African hubs are continuing to make progress in sourcing equipment locally. Recently Camara Rwanda received an equipment donation from DFID’s (UK Department for International Development) Rwandan Offices. They received CPU’s, servers, some laptops and scanners.
Meanwhile Camara Zambia received equipment from the Irish Embassy. The donation comprised of some printers, computers, a server and [...]
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IKEA Computer Bring Day
As part of IKEA’s commitment to environmental sustainability they have asked Camara to organise a Computer Bring Day for this Sat 8th Jan at their IKEA Dublin Store. Computers can be dropped off at their store entrance from 10:00am to 06:00pm. Due to the costs of refurbishing and shipping computers to Africa, Camara ask for [...]
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Camara PC Breakage Rates
I found this really interesting. We were collectively musing in the office as to how the breakage rates of Camara pcs compare with new pcs. Ste found the following which was really interesting
(From Google answers)
Below you find will the results of my research for first year failure
rates of desktop and laptop PCs for [...]
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Vodafone Go Green Recycle Day – 22nd July 2010
Camara attended Vodafone’s recent Go Green Recycle Day, held at their Headquarters, Mountainview, Leopardstown. The event promoted ‘reuse and recycle’ amongst Staff with a swap book scheme for Enable Ireland, recycle your phones with the Vodafone support for the Irish Heart Foundation. Vodafone recently supported Camara in using them to recycle printers.
While Camara does not [...]
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No thanks! ;)
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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Camara epic poem
This was genuinely for an application. An ‘epic story’ in 2 pages about Camara under the set headings. Yes I am a 12 year old
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Decision Time. Responsible Recycling or Ethical Reuse!
‘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
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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Project Manager Urgently Required