Deaf Week–Day 8

Deaf Day!

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When I arrived after morning mass, a little after noon, most of the Deaf Day participants had finished eating and were just enjoying the time together. They live very isolated lives and seldom get to see each other and talk in their own language.

Deaf Week–Day 6

Today’s Deaf Week activity was making decorative paper bracelets. Most of the students were quite creative! And of course afterwards there were the usual photos!

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Deaf Week–Day 4

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Day 4 of Deaf Week was a bit more low-key. The students and staff decorated their faces with Cambodian stickers.

This was also Julie Lawler’s birthday and the Phnom Penh staff celebrated with her at lunch time.

Deaf Week–Day 2

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Each day of Deaf Week our education students have some sort of fun activity. Today they made little hats from paper cups. Some of the students are really creative! All of them had a lot of fun!

Deaf Week–Day 1

This week the Caritas Deaf Development Programme is celebrating Deaf Week, along with deaf people around the world. Our big celebration will be next Sunday but we started today with an informal gathering at a location of Amazon Coffee which hires deaf baristas. The four participating branches each have two deaf people in the morning shift and two in the afternoon shift. This was an enjoyable way to start deaf week!

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A Different Look

This is the hall at St. Jude Thaddeus School we use for mass on Saturday night. This photo was on Sunday morning when the hall had been transformed into the site for the foundation day celebration for the school.