Tag Archives: Computers

Our GM’s African Trip – First Installment

By mariea | Published: March 22, 2011
After six airports in two days, I finally made it to my first destination, our hub in Kitwe, Zambia where I met Douglas (standing at back of photo). Douglas finished school a few months ago and has started to volunteer in our top performing hub, Camara Zambia. On my arrival and introduction he sought me [...]
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Give the gift of a computer this Christmas

By mariea | Published: December 7, 2010
Christmas is fast approaching and as present lists are being drawn up by young and old we would urge you to set aside just a fraction of your Christmas present budget for a worthwhile charity. Many great charities are providing a wide varity of fantastic inexpensive gift ideas, from football kits to dairy cows to Christmas [...]
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Using computers to teach maths

By Ciarán | Published: December 1, 2010
As a fully paid-up Ted obsessive- I thought this was really useful. He’s a mathematician and thus not quite as captivating as a human would be making the same point, but really interesting anyway
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UCD Staff Donate 186 computers for Tanzanian Schools

By Eoghan | Published: January 27, 2009
On a cold and wet Saturday morning a few volunteers arrived into to UCD. By lunch we had transported 186 computers, donated by UCD staff, to Camara HQ for refurbishment. The previous week through the combined effort of UCD Volunteers Overseas and UCD Services personnel a major initiative had been put in place to gather [...]
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ESB ICT Department have a Camara Day

By Mark | Published: January 20, 2009
ICT Group’s Sustainability Champions rounded off 2008 by nominating Monday December 22nd as Camara Day in ICT Group. The idea was to collect as much unused computer and related “stuff” as could be found in all of the Head Office places where ICT group people work, then hand over what was collected to Camara. Camara [...]
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Belfast Hub

By ann | Published: January 20, 2009
Update From Belfast Workshop Calling for Base Units, Mice and Powerleads The structural work and decoration of the Belfast workshop is now complete. Volunteers have started to drop in and this evening we have invited back volunteers from Africa 07 and 08 and will be receiving new volunteers. We will be establishing a rota for [...]
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Huge Thanks

By eoghan | Published: January 19, 2009
Huge Thanks to all those who helped out at the Camara stand at this year’s Young Scientist Exhibition, 3 days straight. Apart from the computer parts quiz and wikepedia quiz on our stand, we had a daily word search or quiz for the students participating, and many hands on deck to talk to all [...]
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