Why not free up some space by recycling your old computer? Come along to Camara’s drop off day on UCD Campus this Wednesday, 29th May. In conjunction with UCD Volunteers Overseas, Camara will accept your PCs and laptops in Room S0.05 in the South Science building, from 11.00am until 4.30pm. Your old computers will be [...]
Camara joins Africa Day celebrations
One reused computer can help to educate up to 21 children. Camara Education works to ensure as many computers as possible are reused to educate children from disadvantaged communities in Africa and elsewhere. With better education, African communities can break the cycle of poverty they find themselves in. Camara will have a stand at Africa [...]
Camara Ethiopia signs Agreement with UNESCO-IICBA on Teacher Development Programme
Camara Education Ethiopia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA) to collaborate on teacher training and development programmes. Camara and UNESCO-IICBA will produce tool-kits to identify the level of teacher competence and develop a roadmap of teacher-training courses and materials that will ultimately enable all teachers to maximise the use [...]
Camara Wins Prestigious ICT Excellence Award
The 13th annual ICT Excellence Awards were presented at a Gala Dinner in Dublin on May 16th. For reach and impact the Judges were very taken by Camara Education and Camara won the award for Best Use of Technology for Education or Training. Camara are delighted to receive such a prestigious award. John Fitzsimons, CEO of Camara [...]
Project 1000 sees first computers into schools
North Street Primary School in Kingston is the first school to benefit from the Digicel Foundation’s Project 1000—just in time for Teachers’ Day celebrated worldwide on May 8. Launched last month, Project 1000 will provide one thousand early childhood and primary institutions across the island with Information Communications Technologies (ICTs) over the course of three [...]
Reuse, reboot, recycle
*This piece first appeared in The Irish Times on 25 April 2013. An Irishman’s Diary: How old Irish computers are starting new lives abroad by Frank McNally, fmcnally@irishtimes.com If you’re getting rid of an old computer, these days, you could probably earn a few quid for it from a recycler. The more valuable parts will [...]
Camara’s Quarterly Newsletter – April 2013
Welcome to Camara’s second newsletter for 2013. Click above to read more
Project 1000 to benefit 1000 Jamaican schools
One thousand early childhood institutions and primary schools across the island will receive Information Communications Technologies (ICTs) through the Digicel Foundation’s Project 1000. The announcement was made on April 24 at a press briefing at Digicel’s global headquarters in Downtown Kingston. Project 1000 is in keeping with the Foundation’s aim to meet the United Nation’s Millennium [...]
Ireland’s Digital Champion, Lord Puttnam, Celebrates Camara’s 40,000th Computer
Lord David Puttnam, Digital Champion of Ireland, visited the Camara Education workshop in Chapelizod to congratulate the social enterprise on providing 40,000 computers to disadvantaged schools in Ireland, Africa and the Caribbean. The container Lord Puttnam sent off, currently on its way to Tanzania, will add to the 500,000 children whose education Camara has enhanced [...]
Camara Wristband Campaign
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -Nelson Mandela Camara has launched a campaign to get one of these wristbands to Nelson Mandela. The wristbands have been sent to individuals who support Camara’s mission to enhance education through digital literacy. Each person has been asked to tweet a [...]
