{"id":219530,"date":"2018-04-24T23:34:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T03:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=219530"},"modified":"2019-02-10T16:36:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T21:36:39","slug":"ireland-based-ngo-to-send-30000-computers-to-ethiopian-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/219530","title":{"rendered":"Ireland-based NGO to send 30,000 computers to Ethiopian schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30,000 PCs are to be provided to 1,250 schools in Ethiopia over three years under a $12 million project run by Irish technology-in-learning charity <a href=\"http:\/\/camara.org\/eth\/\">Camara Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative will benefit a total of 1.2m students, and is supported by computer company Dell and the Ethiopian Ministry for Education.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the project, a new computer lab and e-learning centre has just been opened at Shimelis Habte Secondary School in Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Camara-Education-Ethiopia.jpg?resize=780%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"482\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-219531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Camara-Education-Ethiopia.jpg?w=950&amp;ssl=1 950w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Camara-Education-Ethiopia.jpg?resize=800%2C494&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Camara-Education-Ethiopia.jpg?resize=768%2C475&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over $9m is being invested in the overall project by the Ethiopian government through local government budgets, while parents and communities are also contributing.<\/p>\n<p>Dell has also pledged $650,000 to the scheme &#8211; money that will see 400,000 young people and 3,000 educators in 400 locations across Ethiopia benefit. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2018\/0423\/956547-charity-computers-ethiopia\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30,000 PCs are to be provided to 1,250 schools in Ethiopia over three years under a $12 million project run by Irish technology-in-learning charity Camara Education. The initiative will benefit a total of 1.2m students, and is supported by computer company Dell and the Ethiopian Ministry for Education. As part of the project, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Camara-Education-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=950%2C587&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-V6O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219532,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219530\/revisions\/219532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}