Today was a real family day bringing together an increasingly large extended family. Click here for different scenes from the day.
Visit to Kentucky–7
Author: Charles Dittmeier
April Board Meeting–6
In the morning we had the final session of the April board of directors meeting and then we all headed home. I went to Newark Airport for a flight to Louisville. Click here for pictures from the day.
April Board Meeting–5
Today was the one full day of meetings of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners board of directors. Click here for photos of the day.
April Board Meeting–4
Today was a day for catching up with many things before we began the board meetings in the evening. Click here for photos from the day.
April Board Meeting–3
I was really busy with the opening of the board meeting and my taking notes as the secretary and didn’t have a chance to prepare an update here. It will come tomorrow.
April Board Meeting–2
I spent most of the morning getting from the airport to Maryknoll, and then in the afternoon I made the rounds of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners and the priests’ seminary building to say hello to people and arrange meetings for the next few days. Click here for some photos from the day.
April Board Meeting–1
Today was a travel day, getting me as far from Phnom Penh as Guangzhou in southern China. Click here to see some of the day’s sights.
CACD Meeting
Today was the quarterly meeting of the Catholic Alliance for Charity and Development (CACD), the social outreach of the diocese of Phnom Penh. Representatives from all the Catholic NGOs and agencies and from the religious communities come together to discuss chosen topics and to become a better face of the church’s outreach to the people of Cambodia.
Nokor Tep Women’s Hospital
The opening
After years of organizing and fund-raising, Janne Ritskes was finally able to see the opening of her Nokor Tep’s Women Hospital that she built. Click here for photos of the opening ceremony.
More light…
After getting each of DDP’s projects assigned to an area of the new building, we have been focusing on getting the building renovated so that the projects can work better. Because electricity has been very expensive in Cambodia and people were used to living without it, there is little efficient wiring and lighting in Cambodian buildings. Especially at the new DDP, the building was really dark. Now our contractor is just about finished replacing all very small fluorescent lights with new and much brighter LED lighting fixtures.