Social Entrepreneur wins David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Award
Nov 14 2008
Dublin-based Camara has been named the overall winner of the David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Awards. Camara was founded by Cormac Lynch, a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland 2006 Awardee. As well as being the overall winner, Camara won the David Manley Emerging Social Entrepreneur category.
Camara specialises in recycling technology from Ireland and delivering sustainable information and communications technologies to the educational sector in sub-Saharan Africa. It refurbishes discarded computers from Irish companies and individuals, destined for Irish landfill sites, and sends them instead to schools and colleges in Africa. Camara also organise the delivery of basic and advanced ICT training programmes to the teachers in the schools receiving computers. By 2012, it expects to be able to supply 1,000 African schools a year with a fully functional computer lab.
Describing Camara, Alfie Kane, Chairman of the David Manley Awards comments, “Camara creates Irish and third world jobs and helps empower the next generation of sub-Sahara African children. They have engineered a successful ‘end-to-end management process’ which ensures effective collection, restoration, delivery, installation and use of what would otherwise be a huge waste and cost if redundant computers were just recycled in the normal manner.” Camara founder, Cormac Lynch was presented with the Award by leading Irish entrepreneur Domini Kemp.
The David Manley Awards are an annual awards programme open to emerging social, business and arts entrepreneurs. Galway-based Arcana Productions won the Emerging Arts Entrepreneur category while Slainte Technologies from Dublin were the winners of the Emerging Business award.
To read more about Camara go to www.camara.ie
