Charlie is on a trip to Australia to work with Caritas Australia, a DDP donor. The trip started off OK; the reporting about it in these pages has been a disaster. The center where I am staying has terrible wi-fi connections and finally Saturday night I had to just give up and go to bed after I could not upload these pages with 1.5 hours of trying. Click here to finally see what the first day of the trip was like.
Author: Charles Dittmeier
Getting Ready for a Trip
These are some of young deaf men participating in our DDP job training to become barbers. This morning I dropped in for a quick trim of my beard as I prepare to head to Australia to speak to donors about Caritas Australia who gives money to the Deaf Development Programme. That’s the name on the shirts of the guys on the left and on the right. I leave in about an hour and will return to Phnom Penh on 2 March.
Another Year Older
Each month we have a birthday celebration for the staff of DDP born in that month. Yesterday we had a celebration for January and February. For some reason we couldn’t hold the usual celebration in January so we combined it with the February event.
What’s Wrong with this Picture?
This is a newly paved road on the west side of Phnom Penh where a small street was widened to four lanes. Three lanes are finished. Does anyone see a problem with finishing the fourth lane?
Notable Quotes
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“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” ~ Henri Nouwen |
What’s a Little Dust?
Of course, the dust on the car would never fall on the fish….
Topics: Noise (3)
Well-established stores use a lot of noise to advertise but many small entrepreneurs use pop-up shops on the sidewalks to sell their wares and they use lots of noise, too. Click here to see a variety of these stalls.
Maybe It’s Time….
Girl, 12, held in LA school shooting.
BBC Headline
Motorcycle Loads #242
The man across the street from the Maryknoll office runs some kind of snack food business from his house–just like about every other Cambodian family. They don’t call the houses here “shophouses” for nothing. Each morning our neighbor loads up his motorcycle to make a delivery to his customers. He has it down to an art now. Notice how little of the seat is left for him to use.
Motorcycle Loads #241
These chickens get no respect.