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Google and RoboSteel: July 31, 2009

On Friday, July 31, Google organised with RoboSteel and Camara a charity raffle of an alien made from recycled material at Google’s European Headquarters on Barrow St. Google has recently donated 59 servers to Camara which will be invaluable for Camara’s IT infrastructure. RoboSteel donated a unique and beautiful hand crafted Alien sculpture for the raffle [...]
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Thanks A Million! July 28, 2009

A huge thank you to all of you who participated in Flora Mini-Marathon. You raised €18,118.62. This amount covers the cost of refurbishing and equipping 14 schools, or 2 schools in each of our 7 African countries of operation, with computer labs, educational software, and IT teacher training. On average each of these schools has [...]
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Friday and Saturday July 10/11th – Kigali/Addis/Rome/London/Dublin

Going Home Met briefly with Eddy in the morning to say good bye and pass on my old Camara T shirts (I’m sure they’ll be fine once he’s given them a good wash). Then, before departing for the airport, I went to meet my Rwandan friend but there was little compromise in his heart. Anyway not [...]
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Wednesday July 8th – Kigali

Cormac’s Hotel Workout Explained I had a three hour nap this afternoon. Eddy was busy sorting out some personal business and we had scheduled all my appointments for tomorrow so today lacked anything resembling an interesting event, anecdote or insight. For that reason I’m using this entry to give some details about my workout regime, that [...]
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Tuesday July 7th – Kigali

Hotel Rwanda (Hôtel des Mille Collines) There are fewer Irish in Rwanda than in the other African countries where Camara has operations; there is no embassy (Kevin Kelly the Irish Ambassador in Uganda looks after Rwanda) and I have yet to meet any Irish religious orders. In Rwanda, it seems the Americans and British are in, [...]
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Monday July 6th – Kigali: Back to work

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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