I went to check what the tech wizards at Maryknoll had done with the video I sent them about DDP—and it didn’t come out the way they said it would! The proposal was for me to send a video that they would edit into three sections for the Saturday, Sunday, and Monday before tomorrow’s Giving Tuesday.
Instead it looks like they used the whole enchilada, all 26 minutes of video except for some transitions and introductions I had included.
You can take a look at: www.maryknollsociety.org/givingtuesday/
Something in Firefox or in the Maryknoll webpage won’t allow me to put a clickable link here so you will have to click on the address above and then copy-and-paste it into your browser address line. Sorry about that!
Thanks for any help you can give!
Author: Charles Dittmeier
New Church: One more step – 2
Here are a couple additional photos from yesterday showing more what was going on.


Giving Tuesday, for DDP
I’m not that familiar with Giving Tuesday (that started after I left the United States) but two weeks ago the Maryknoll priests group contacted me to say they wanted to feature the Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme here in Cambodia in their Giving Tuesday appeal. I made some videos for them and they were supposed to start posting them over this past weekend.
Here is the link: https://maryknollsociety.org/givingtuesday/
There was a still photo there when I checked on the weekend but I encourage you both to take a look at the videos (we were trying to explain more about deafness) and to make a donation. We are in a bad situation because of reduced donations to our funders because of Covid-19.
New Church: One more step
Today Bishop Olivier presided over the official start of the new church on the grounds at the St. Joseph Church compound.




You want to stand out?

Thanksgiving Day 2021
Maryknoll Cambodia celebrated Thanksgiving on Wednesday this year. We normally meet every Wednesday and have a woman who cooks for us on that day so to fit everyone’s schedule, it was easier just to celebrate the holiday a day early. No one would notice here



That’s the way we do it here…

No extra charge

Water Festival
November 18, 19, 20 were the annual Water Festival holidays. This year, though, because of Covid-19, the boat races on the Tonle Sap River were canceled so the migration of two or three million people to Phnom Penh didn’t happen.
There are always aspects of Cambodia culture that we foreigners will never understand or fully appreciate. For me one of those is the association of the flower decorations pictured in the photographs with the Water Festival. They are of a Khmer style but their meaning, the origin of the design, how they are used is a mystery to me


Well, we got the sink….
