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Decorating for Christmas at DDP

Today some of the deaf staff from the Deaf Community Center were making some decorations to use for a Christmas gathering on December 26. We need to continue social distancing, wearing masks, and using sanitizer but we are allowed to have larger gatherings now.

Christmas Culture at DDP (Part 2)

Click here to see photos of the afternoon activities on the day when the DDP students learned about and experienced some of the ways different cultures celebrate Christmas.

This Friday was a day when regular classes were canceled and the students were able to participate in activities and games to be part of the Christmas spirit that spreads around Cambodia even though very few people here could explain Christmas as a religious celebration. Click here to see some of the morning activities.

A birthday

Today was Soknym’s first birthday as a member of the DDP staff and the rest of the staff provided a cake for celebrating together with him this afternoon.

Practice for Christmas Greeting

On their break this morning, students in DDP’s Education Project made a quick little video to offer Christmas greetings on the Maryknoll Lay Missioners website later this month. They just signed “Merry Christmas” and “Happy New Year” in Cambodian Sign Language.

Sunday afternoon….

For many months our Deaf Community Center could not have any activities because of the Covid regulations. Now Cambodia is officially “open” and groups are allowed to gather again as long as they wear masks, use sanitizer, and maintain distances. The past two weeks DCC has started organizing games and activities on the weekend, and there has been a good response from deaf people who felt very isolated in their homes.

This afternoon at the Deaf Development Programme office grounds, one group–mostly DDP staff–played volleyball while another group, mostly students, chopped up ginger for meals this week. Yesterday teams of deaf people cleared brush from around our fish pond so a new fence can be installed, and this morning the DCC staffed taught everyone how to make a traditional Khmer dessert.

For most of the deaf people who came by this afternoon, it was just a quiet time to be with friends and to chat and rest up from a busy week.

IDPD

Giving Tuesday, for DDP

I went to check what the tech wizards at Maryknoll had done with the video I sent them about DDP—and it didn’t come out the way they said it would! The proposal was for me to send a video that they would edit into three sections for the Saturday, Sunday, and Monday before tomorrow’s Giving Tuesday.

Instead it looks like they used the whole enchilada, all 26 minutes of video except for some transitions and introductions I had included.

You can take a look at: www.maryknollsociety.org/givingtuesday/

Something in Firefox or in the Maryknoll webpage won’t allow me to put a clickable link here so you will have to click on the address above and then copy-and-paste it into your browser address line. Sorry about that!

Thanks for any help you can give!

Category: Deaf

Christmas Eve at DDP