This was the first working day for the Asian Deaf Catholic Conference. Click here for photos from the day.
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This was the first working day for the Asian Deaf Catholic Conference. Click here for photos from the day.
Actually today was the main travel day for most of the group. They gathered in Manila and then took buses to the Maryridge retreat center in Tagaytay City southeast of Manila. Click here to see today’s activities.
This week saw a gathering of Asian Deaf Catholic people in a retreat center outside of Manila in the Philippines. Today was a travel day for those, like me, who had to make an overnight trip of it. Click here for a few photos from the journey.
I’m in the Philippines for an Asian Catholic deaf conference. The trip was rather routine and even enjoyable until I actually got here. More about that tomorrow when I start documenting the trip. Getting through immigration was a trip and then the taxi couldn’t find the hotel. But I’m here now and because it’s so late, I’m going to bed. More in the morning.
Today was a travel day from Siem Reap where we had our annual meeting to Kampong Cham, Kampot, and Phnom Penh where are centers are located. Click here for pictures from the trip to Phnom Penh.
This was the second full day of our staff meetings and the morning was full of discussions. But the afternoon saw some special recognitions and then a trip to Angkor Wat and to the tourist area of Siem Reap. Click here to see some photos from the day.
Today was the first of two full days of reports and discussions. Click here to see what we did.
The DDP staff came from Phnom Penh, Kampong Cham, and Kampot today to a reflection center in Siem Reap, the home of Angkor Wat. Half the day was travel but then we got into our agenda. Click here to see our journey and the meeting beginnings.
The Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme doesn’t work in isolation. There is very little room to work with the government of Cambodia but DDP is always on the lookout for possibilities of working with other groups. This past week Sokly (R) and I met with representatives (old friends) of the UNDP, the UN Development Program, to look at possible collaboration on projects.
At the end of December, the Maryknoll Seedling of Hope project will close and the Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme will move its offices and activities to the present Seedling grounds. Our usage of the property will be quite a bit different from at present so we have been going to Seedling to look at the grounds and buildings to determine how we can best utilize them.