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Tag Archives: education
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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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 Fourth Installment
So how does one introduce oneself to a Prime Minister? That was what I was mulling over as I was on the aiport bus back to the terminal, but first let me start at the beginning.
As the airport bus drove us to the plane to bring us from Johannesburg to Maseru (Lesotho), the rain started [...]
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GM Africa Trip – Third Installment
The meeting in the President’s Office went as well as we could have expected. The ban on the importation of refurbished computers will soon be applicable only to those below a certain specification. This year in Camara we need to bring in 20,000 PC’s to distribute 10,000 so this specification should not be a [...]
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GM’s Africa Trip – Second Installment
The emergency announcement on the Boeing 787 from Lusaka to Addis Ababa was a little more formal than the one we heard previously. Two days before in Ndola on route to Lusaka, the pilot turned around to the seven passengers to tell us where the exits were, oh, and by the way can [...]
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Our GM’s African Trip – First Installment
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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Teacher Education in Moodle
Settling back into work after Christmas I had a note from John Hennessy introducing me to the ITEMS (Integrated Teaching Elearning Modules) project. The project is called ‘Improving Education in Maths and Science’ and aims to promote an inquiry based model for students using ICT. The project is an EU Leonardo project involving the EU [...]
Gender Education Module
Camara is delighted to announce the completion of its Gender Education Module. While our core objective is to improve formal educational attainment, there is clearly huge potential for technology to advance social issues. To date we’ve developed material around both HIV/AIDS Education and Disability, with Nutrition on the way. Mainstreaming these issues [...]
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DIT and Camara Education Partner in Race Against Computer Waste