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GM Africa Trip Fifth and Final Installment

By mariea | Published: April 1, 2011
Ireland – England – Ethiopia – Zimbabwe – Zambia - Ethiopia - Uganda – Rwanda - Uganda – Ethiopia – South Africa – Lesotho - South Africa – Ethiopia – Italy – England – Ireland It’s been a hectic two weeks however thoroughly worthwhile. It was great to be in Ethiopia to meet all our [...]
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Birth of a service in Galway

By eoghan | Published: June 2, 2010
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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Back to School in Kigali

By eoghan | Published: September 15, 2009
Kigali – Sept 8 – 2009 Today, another high school from Bugesera district came by to pick up 30 computers for their school lab. This makes it now 4 schools in Bugesera, with approx half of the first container distributed. Good work by Eddy (our acting CEO) and Marcos Morales, who following the volunteer work decided to [...]
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News from Kigali – 17 July 2009

By eoghan | Published: July 18, 2009
Here is some good news – from the Hub in Rwanda Today, a first of many schools from the Bugesera District picked up 25 PC’s for their IT lab. The 11 volunteers under the leadership of Maria and Fintan will assist in the next two weeks in setting up the technology and in getting the lab up [...]
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Monday July 6th – Kigali: Back to work

By eoghan | Published: July 9, 2009
The main objective in visiting Kigali was to see what progress was being made in Rwanda on the newest Hub in the Camara network. I met Eddy (Hub CEO) for lunch and then traveled by bus to the new centre, a 3 bedroom house close to the Sports Stadium. The place is ideal to start – [...]
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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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Eamon Ryan packs Camara's 10,000th computer

By eoghan | Published: April 29, 2009
Last Tuesday, April 21st was a landmark day for Camara. At 14:30 Minister Eamon Ryan helped Camara CEO, Cormac Lynch pack the 10,000th computer which was sent to an African school in Tanzania. Minister Ryan said “Camara is a great example of how a simple idea can benefit many. These are computers that could have simply [...]
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