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Back to School in Kigali

By eoghan | Published: September 15, 2009
Kigali – Sept 8 – 2009 Today, another high school from Bugesera district came by to pick up 30 computers for their school lab. This makes it now 4 schools in Bugesera, with approx half of the first container distributed. Good work by Eddy (our acting CEO) and Marcos Morales, who following the volunteer work decided to [...]
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Training Completion- Kigali, Rwanda: August 4, 2009

By eoghan | Published: August 4, 2009
I am happy to inform everyone that the computer training, which Camara volunteers had been conducting in the Ruhuha and Nyamata sectors of the Bugesera district, concluded yesterday. The last day was an eventful one; volunteers played a football match with teachers and the game ended with volunteers losing to the local teachers. After the [...]
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News from Kigali – 17 July 2009

By eoghan | Published: July 18, 2009
Here is some good news – from the Hub in Rwanda Today, a first of many schools from the Bugesera District picked up 25 PC’s for their IT lab. The 11 volunteers under the leadership of Maria and Fintan will assist in the next two weeks in setting up the technology and in getting the lab up [...]
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Friday and Saturday July 10/11th – Kigali/Addis/Rome/London/Dublin

By eoghan | Published: July 14, 2009
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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Thursday July 9th – Kigali/Nyamata

By eoghan | Published: July 14, 2009
A Roller Coaster (Excuse the length of the entry but it was a though-provoking day) This trip has been a series of highs and lows.Just when it seems like Camara is doing something that makes a real difference, something inexplicable, arbitrary or short sighted happens which causes me to stop dead in my tracks and question [...]
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Wednesday July 8th – Kigali

By eoghan | Published: July 14, 2009
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

By eoghan | Published: July 14, 2009
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

By eoghan | Published: July 9, 2009
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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Sunday July 5th – Kigali: A day to catch up

By eoghan | Published: July 9, 2009
Kigali is a beautiful city nestled among rolling green hills and I woke up early in the St Famille hostel to sun streaming through my window.  Since starting my trip this was the first day that I didn’t have meetings or places to visit so I spent the morning reading Dallaire’s account of the genocide.   [...]
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Saturday July 4th – Maseru/Johannesburg/Entebbe/Kigali Airport time

By eoghan | Published: July 9, 2009
Today I was in airports, four of them in total, with four different currencies, four different visa requirements and about 20 miscellaneous security checks.   I found it hard to sit still for long so spent my time wandering in and out of shops looking at the expensively priced clothes and electronic gadgets.  As I was [...]
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