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A Square Peg

By eoghan | Published: August 31, 2009
As humans, we enjoy art and speech. As humans, we also experience loss and sorrow. As humans, we all make mistakes. As an employee of Camara, I have made a few professionally and personally in the last 6 weeks traveling to various Camara partnered social enterprise centers and the employees therewith in. On the Ethiopian tuk [...]
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Who lays the bricks? July 29, 2009

By eoghan | Published: July 29, 2009
Awasa, Ethiopia I arrived tenser than usual. I think its better to assume the worst than hope for the best. Team morale is fluctuating like the power here. Although Ethiopia produces more power hydro-electrically than it consumes each year, it has been exporting increasingly more to its neighbours. Citizens in Southern Ethiopia have similar names for [...]
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Adama Power Problems: July 13th and 14th

By eoghan | Published: July 29, 2009
Francisco and I head down to meet the rest of the team in Adama. This is their second week there and they seem to have settled in nicely. There have been a lot of problems with electricity, one day on and one day off in different parts of the city. Since this was known before [...]
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The Irish in Addis

By Cormac | Published: July 7, 2009
Thursday 25th June – Addis If you want to see the Irish at their best then travel to Africa. Whether its the missionary orders or the Irish business, education and diplomatic communities, there are a large number of Paddies on this continent working towards a common goal of helping people less fortunate than themselves. Typical examples I [...]
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Adama/Addis

By Cormac | Published: July 7, 2009
Wednesday 24th June – Adama/Addis Ethiopian Board Meeting Even though Feyissa is a very successful business man, the idea of a western style board of governance is not a familiar concept in Ethiopia so Trisha has spent the last couple of days working with him on the Hub’s Board structure and procedures for governance of the Hub. The [...]
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Adama

By Cormac | Published: July 7, 2009
Monday June 23rd – Adama The Ethiopian Justice System Ato (Mr) Feyissa the CEO of our Ethiopian Hub picked us up this morning and drove us down to Adama, a bustling town of 350,000 people about 1 ½ hours south of Addis.  The first person we met at the Hub was Fr Paddy, a Spiritan priest from Dublin who has [...]
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Addis Adaba

By Cormac | Published: July 7, 2009
Sunday June 22nd – Addis Ababa Things start slowly Things always start slowly in Africa, for me at least. It usually takes at least a week for my mind to adjust to the slower rhythm of life here. Actions and deadlines don’t seem to have the same sense of urgency as they do in Ireland – maybe its [...]
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