Deaf – Page 33 – Welcome to Cambodia, and…..

Getting Ready

We’re still moving in at our new DDP office in Boeung Tum Pun. Everything–all the furniture, filing cabinets, desks and tables and chairs, etc.—has been moved from the old building, but we’re still adding more lights, unpacking boxes, and utilizing new spaces. Today the Year 2 students were cleaning up the new computer lab after workmen finishing installing the new lights and fans.

Having a Dream Center

Boy with cochlear implant (above his ear)

Korea Telecom sponsored a center for Cambodian deaf children to receive a medical device called a cochlear implant to help them hear some sounds by bypassing the part of their ear that does not work. Click here to see photos from the opening of the center.

Launch of ACCESS

This week saw the launch of the Australia Cambodia Cooperation for Equitable and Sustainable Services (ACCESS) to which the Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme was invited.

Several officials spoke and there was a panel discussion on how this program can impact projects to address gender-based violence and the needs of people with disabilities.

DDP brought several of its staff to the event
and also provided the sign language interpreting (right).

Seven members of a dance troupe (many of them former DDP students) from Epic Arts offered a performance with performers both with and without disabilities.

Let’s Chat Interview

Today the Khemerican online interview program featured a deaf woman from the United States who is in Cambodia to explore her roots and her Khmer family heritage.

(Photo: Khemerican, Inc.)

ANM – 4

On this last day of the ANM, we had a blessing ceremony to pray in the Buddhist and Christian traditions for protection for the students and staff of DDP and for a good learning and working environment. Click here to see some photos from the blessing ceremonies.

ANM – 3

Today, the last meeting day of the week-long negotiations, saw a lot of different activities. Click here to see some of the photos.

ANM – 2

Today was the second day of meetings, focusing on what has been accomplished in the present funding cycle. Click here for some photos from the day.

ANM – 1

Some of the wildlife at the new DDP office

Today we started the official sit-down meetings of the Annual Negotiations Meeting with the Finnish Association of the Deaf. Click here to see some of the day’s activity.

Preparing for Women’s Day

DDP staff preparing decorations for the Women’s Day celebration

Staff Meeting at New DDP

Just a day or so after making the move to our new DDP office site, we had a staff meeting on the large front porch. Normally we would have used our meeting room but the staff complained it was full of mosquitoes–it was!—so we moved our first meeting in the new building outdoors and Sokly explained about some of our personnel policy.