Author: Charles Dittmeier
A Whole Lot of Wet
We’re definitely in the rainy season now, and today was exceptionally wet. It started raining about a half hour before I was due to leave in the afternoon and I didn’t think much about it but just put on my poncho and got on my bike. About a block away, though, I started encountering streets like this and decided it wasn’t worth it and went back to DDP and called a three-wheel tuk-tuk like these above.
Say what?
Time for a Haircut
First Day at Work
Job Training Project Graduation
On July 31st, we had a graduation ceremony for four young deaf women who finished training as seamstresses in a program sponsored by the Center for Global Impact. Click here for pictures from the graduation.
Changing Times
Evangelization? Inter-religious Dialogue?
Whatever you call it, it’s building up the reign of God on earth.
Fr. Bob Wynne started a program in Anlong Knang, a resettlement area outside of Phnom Penh, for the elderly men and women who live there with no families and no support systems. His program gives hot meals to the elderly twice a week plus staples for other days, and there is a core of young volunteers who visit the elderly on weekends to clean the house, wash their clothes, help with problems, take them to the local clinic if they are ill–and most of all just show them love and respect. The interesting thing is that all of the youth volunteers are Buddhist!
Birds+Nests=Soup
It’s not uncommon to see buildings like the one above dotting the Cambodian landscape….
They are distinctive for two things: first while they may have some vents, like the one above, they have no windows. And second, they have an opening like the one on the left end of the building (right photo) and birds are flying in and out.
You have heard of birdnest soup. This is where they get the birdnests. The birds nest in these rooms and create nests held together with their saliva, and then later the nests are harvested and soaked and made into soup.