Arab Computer Camps (1984-1994) In 1984, pan-Arab management and training company Team started a project to train Arab youth on computer programming. The idea stemmed from the realization that human resource development needed to be addressed at a much earlier stage of life. Over a period of ten years, Team organized 42 Arab Computer Camps for children aged between 8 and 18. Close to 10,000 Arab children took part in this project, 70% of whom later joined the rising IT sector in the region. The aim of the project was to disseminate computer literacy, abolish the intimidation to the machine prevalent in the region during the 1980s in the hope of contributing to the increase of professionals in the IT industry. The CompuCamps, as it is warmly referred to by its alumni, produced much more than exposure and skills in computer programming. The three-week residential summer camps were held in various Arab, African and European cities including Tangiers in Morocco; Cairo, Alexandria, and Sinai in Egypt; Hammamat, Tunisia, and even in Accra, Ghana; Harare, Zimbabwe and York, UK. The diverse locations gave opportunities for Arab youth to experience a new country and the diverse group of youth from different Arab countries provided an unprecedented experience for campers. The Arab Computer Camps project was financed by Team. However, Team adopted an early form of corporate citizenship, contacting many of its corporate partners and colleagues and encouraging them to fund underprivileged Arab youth to share the experience. The initiative was so successful that by the third year, 60% of campers in each camp were fully funded, allowing for the sustainability of the project. In addition to learning computer programming skills (Logo, Basic, Pascal and Robotics), the campers were exposed to an enriching cultural experience through a fun-based extracurricular activity. The Arab Computer Camps motto was "Where Learning is Fun." Theatre, pottery, astronomy, music, singing, radio broadcasting, poetry were among the various activities that youth experimented in. Another contribution the Arab Computer Camps project achieved was to spread computer literacy through a wider circle through two ways. One was to sell - at a nominal price - computer machines to campers who did not own a machine after the camp was over. The other was donating computer machines to public schools in the country where the camp was located, thereby increasing the opportunities of computer literacy.