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Adama hub staff visit to Hamer, Ethiopia

By eoghan | Published: December 17, 2008
One of the days that Cormac was in town we had lunch in the Hilton with some of the Connect delegates ( a rare treat), as I over indulged shamelessly in the free buffet we were joined by a very pleasant man who turned out to be Fr Paddy Moran based in a town called [...]
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Connect Ethiopia

By Cormac | Published: December 13, 2008
Thursday November 27th – Addis Ababa I have managed to spend the last few days bumming food, drink and money of the Connect Ethiopia group that are in town presenting workshops and establishing business contacts with Ethiopian organisations. Founded by Brody Sweeney and Philip Lee, Connect Ethiopia has a strong business focus and believes that building profitable local enterprises is [...]
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That Hotel Again!

By Cormac | Published: December 13, 2008
Wednesday November 26th – Adama/Addis Ababa Most of the morning was spent with Feyissa and Eyob Girma (the Technical Director of Hamara) talking about corporate governance, the need to find a permanent CEO, pricing of the computers and what type of after-market support we were providing to the schools. Eyob (who has an Msc in Computer Science from Addis [...]
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The Opening

By Cormac | Published: December 11, 2008
Tuesday November 25th – Addis Ababa/Adama Donal got back from the reception rather later than myself (3am in the morning apparently!!) to find his room had been broken into and his wallet and very expensive clothes had been stolen. Having got no joy from the hotel management (it was clearly an inside job) we put the Taitu Hotel on [...]
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Extremes in Addis

By Cormac | Published: December 11, 2008
This morning myself and Donal (a Camara volunteer out for 3 months helping to get ICDL set up) went to visit a hospital/hospice/orphanage run by the Missionaries of Charity (Mother Therese’s order) in Addis. I won’t describe the type of lives led by people helped in this place because their lives are indescribable but what I will say is [...]
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Aoife's blogroll – bit late but connections here are poor at best

By Eoghan | Published: July 31, 2008
So the first week ended up quite well. We taught 60 people in total the basics of a word processing, spreadsheet and presentation package. They were from all walks of life, some students, teachers acountants, secretaries, etc. On friday we celebrated with a few St. George beers and had a sleep in saturday morning. It [...]
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Choose Ethiopia from Laura McG in Nazret.

By Eoghan | Published: July 30, 2008
Choose tibbs. Choose high altitude and amazing scenery. Choose the Bekele Molla. Choose bringing your own toilet paper everywhere. Choose Hamara Hub. Choose smiling faces. Choose Birr. Choose ordering your breakfast the night before. Choose wonderful coffee. Choose to be welcomed warmly into such a diverse culture. Choose talking cat. Choose living on Italian food [...]
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Ethiopia – Problem with mobile network

By Team Ethiopia Green | Published: July 16, 2008
Hi all, Just a quick note to say that, unfortunately, the mobile phone network is down here in Ethiopia. I spoke to some people from Ethiopia Telecom yesterday and they said that the opitcal fibre cable had been cut in Debre Zeyit (about half way between here and Addis). I’m not certain of the effect throughout [...]
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Ethiopia Green Team – Update

By Team Ethiopia Green | Published: July 9, 2008
Flashes of lightning are illuminating the sky as the boom of thunder roll toward us. It’s nearing midnight here in Adama (aka Nazret) in our new home for the next 2 and a half weeks – the Bekele Molla hotel (prounced “Beka-Le-Malla”). It’s a nice place – the staff are getting used to us at this stage – and [...]
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Welcome to Ethiopia!

By Eoghan | Published: July 2, 2008
Right, Ethiopia is amazing! Here are a few points we’ve picked up on: Can someone bring over a big bottle of Alcohol hand wash that Cathy (Eoghans girlfriend) will be leaving into the workshop? Can someone pick up a Digital Video camera for Laura – it’s in the workshop. Pls bring in hand luggage Can someone from each [...]
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