Friday 1 August 2008

Good Publicity

Camara got very good publicity this week. Check out the following link:


http://www.rte.ie/news/features/globalclassroom/index.html

This link includes the 6 O'Clock news broadcast last Monday, some extended interviews with various people involved in the project and the radio interview I did with Miles Dungan that morning.

There is a great story about what was involved in actually securing a landline for the interview which I will relate a little later in another note (for reasons that will become obvious when I tell the story!).

The Camara volunteers head home tomorrow - I will stay on for another week or so. Its always a sad occasion when they go home - for the volunteers themselves, but also especially for the local people. A month is actually a short time out of here but because of the context of the project its enough time for people to become good friends and for people to miss one another when everyone goes their separate ways.

That said, there will be some celebrating done tonight! Its been a great achievement for all concerned...

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