The Finnish Association of the Deaf and Maryknoll Cambodia jointly sponsor the Deaf Development Programme serving the people of Cambodia, and every year Johanna Karinen, FAD’s representative, comes to Phnom Penh to listen to reports and to plan for the year ahead. This year her visit is from 18-25 March.
Author: Charles Dittmeier
Perhaps It’s Time….
Two wounded in Maryland school shooting, student gunman killed.
(Reuters)
Annual Negotiations Meeting with Finland 3
The Finnish Association of the Deaf and Maryknoll Cambodia jointly sponsor the Deaf Development Programme serving the people of Cambodia, and every year Johanna Karinen, FAD’s representative, comes to Phnom Penh to listen to reports and to plan for the year ahead. This year her visit is from 18-25 March.
Annual Negotiations Meeting with Finland 2
The Finnish Association of the Deaf and Maryknoll Cambodia jointly sponsor the Deaf Development Programme serving the people of Cambodia, and every year Johanna Karinen, FAD’s representative, comes to Phnom Penh to listen to reports and to plan for the year ahead. This year her visit is from 18-25 March.
Annual Negotiations Meeting with Finland
The Finnish Association of the Deaf and Maryknoll Cambodia jointly sponsor the Deaf Development Programme serving the people of Cambodia, and every year Johanna Karinen, FAD’s representative, comes to Phnom Penh to listen to reports and to plan for the year ahead. This year her visit is from 18-25 March.
- Sunday–18 March
Every little bit helps
Buddhist holidays can mean a bit of money if you’re in the right place with the right product. On the last special day for Buddhists, this young girl was pulling a cart full of coconuts, decorated with incense sticks and lotus blossoms, to be sold as offerings to place in the wat (temple). She probably wouldn’t make a lot of money but the dollar or two she probably earned would be a big help to her family.
Not what you think….
In my eighteen years here in Cambodia, I have never seen a fire truck fighting a fire. In fact, I have only seen a fire truck on the street four or five times. I read in the paper that they occasionally do go to fires but usually part of the story is that they don’t actually do anything until the firefighters are paid on the spot.
Today I heard fire truck sirens four times and actually saw this one! All this activity probably means the government is getting ready to use the fire trucks against demonstrators. National elections are coming up in July and the trucks are probably part of the intimidation of free speech in the run up to the voting.
Motorcycle Loads #243
She looks a lot more comfortable than he does!
Notable Quotes
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Since the 1970s, the U.S. has engaged unintentionally in an international experiment, relaxing gun laws as the rest of the world has tightened access. Gun advocates argued that more guns would make us safer, but instead the U.S. now has 25 times the gun murder rate of other advanced countries. ~ Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Opinion Columnist |
Hey, It’s Cambodia….
Coming from US culture where anyone can be sued for anything with the least provocation or cause, it continually amazes me how it is standard procedure here to take off your shoes (required by Cambodian culture) and then just leaving them right in the middle of the doorway or on the steps themselves if there is a set of stairs. It has never dawned on the culture here that stepping out of a doorway onto a mass of shoes, sometimes several layers deep, could be dangerous and might cause an accident. This is the scene at the Maryknoll office on Saturday morning when the kids are inside for religious education.
