Tag Archives: Adama

Adama Power Problems: July 13th and 14th

By eoghan | Published: July 29, 2009
Francisco and I head down to meet the rest of the team in Adama. This is their second week there and they seem to have settled in nicely. There have been a lot of problems with electricity, one day on and one day off in different parts of the city. Since this was known before [...]
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Adama/Addis

By Cormac | Published: July 7, 2009
Wednesday 24th June – Adama/Addis Ethiopian Board Meeting Even though Feyissa is a very successful business man, the idea of a western style board of governance is not a familiar concept in Ethiopia so Trisha has spent the last couple of days working with him on the Hub’s Board structure and procedures for governance of the Hub. The [...]
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Adama

By Cormac | Published: July 7, 2009
Monday June 23rd – Adama The Ethiopian Justice System Ato (Mr) Feyissa the CEO of our Ethiopian Hub picked us up this morning and drove us down to Adama, a bustling town of 350,000 people about 1 ½ hours south of Addis.  The first person we met at the Hub was Fr Paddy, a Spiritan priest from Dublin who has [...]
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Adama hub staff visit to Hamer, Ethiopia

By eoghan | Published: December 17, 2008
One of the days that Cormac was in town we had lunch in the Hilton with some of the Connect delegates ( a rare treat), as I over indulged shamelessly in the free buffet we were joined by a very pleasant man who turned out to be Fr Paddy Moran based in a town called [...]
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The Opening

By Cormac | Published: December 11, 2008
Tuesday November 25th – Addis Ababa/Adama Donal got back from the reception rather later than myself (3am in the morning apparently!!) to find his room had been broken into and his wallet and very expensive clothes had been stolen. Having got no joy from the hotel management (it was clearly an inside job) we put the Taitu Hotel on [...]
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ICDL Kenyan representative visits Adama

By eoghan | Published: December 4, 2008
Last Wednesday, Nov 26th, a Kenyan ICDL Representative landed at Bole International Airport Addis Ababa, at 6:45 AM he was whisked down to Adama to begin an intensive programme. Ethiopia as yet does not offer International Computer Drivers License (ICDL, ECDL in Europe) testing or training. Camara want to be able to offer this international [...]
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Hamara

By Cormac | Published: May 25, 2008
Camara and Harambee College (hence Ha + mara) have teamed up to establish a computer refurbishment and training centre in Adama, about 60 miles south east of Addis. Until a new premises can be built the hub will be located in a small compound on the out skirts of the town which is currently under [...]
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