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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt supports IronMan for Camara
Well done to Niall Dennehy, an employee of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who raised an amazing €1,500 for Camara Education through competing in the IronMan triathlon held in Frankfurt, Germany earlier this year.
The IronMan (in case you didn’t know) is a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run. Thanks to [...]
DIT and Camara Education Partner in Race Against Computer Waste
250,000 computers are scrapped each year in Ireland. Many of these could be reused by disadvantaged communities both at home in Ireland and abroad. DIT has been involved in this activity through its Community Links and Computer Learning in Communities (CLiC) Programmes for the last 15 years. Now, as a [...]
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Camara Galway September Computer Drop-Off
The Camara Galway computer drop-off is taking place on Wednesday 7th of September from 10am to 6pm, so why not drop-off your old PCs, laptops, monitors, keyboards and mice?
The drop-off hub is located on Distillery Rd. in the NUI Galway campus, (travelling towards Moycullen on the Newcastle Rd., turn right into NUIG at the AIB [...]
Camara Coin Challenge – Your change makes a difference
Join us in our quest to create a kilometre of coins along the East Pier of Dun Laoghaire Harbour on Saturday August 27th in aid of our Irish Schools Programme. The Camara Coin Challenge will seek support from the general public in our bid to raise funds for our work at home in Ireland.
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Up close and personal with people who have positive experience of working with Camara Zambia.
The advent of Camara-Zambia has brought about a lot of change in Zambia, through the education system and society. This has been verified by an M & E survey that was done on the Camara beneficiaries who testified about the good things that Camara education has come with. Apart from the computers and education packages [...]
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Update from Camara Ethiopia
The month of June continues to busy for the Ethiopian hub. The training of teachers and EMA ( Local partner) is still on going. Camara Ethiopia is negotiating with the Ministry of Education, Regional Education Bureaus, and also awaiting the container which is currently in Djibouti to sail through Addis Ababa in the coming week. [...]
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Camara Zambia hub:Going To Southern Province
In 2006 it was noted that in Zambia about 90% of the population are lacking ICT tools and training, which has resulted in most schools failing to provide quality education and also leaving the students and teachers disadvantaged when it comes to career opportunities. The Zambian government through the draft ICT policy of 2009 has [...]
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YOUTH APPENTICESHIP
The goal of the Government of Rwanda is to reduce poverty and in turn improve
the well being of its population by ensuring equitable access to quality education
focusing on combating illiteracy. Recommendations from the Workforce Development
Authority (WDA) in Rwanda recommends the acquisition of technical skills by able
individuals to ensure that those that are unable to get [...]
GM Africa Trip Fifth and Final Installment
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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