Category: Deaf

Once the trucks were unloaded, the staff were eager to get settled in their new offices and work spaces. Click here to see the different offices.

Click here to see the unloading of the trucks at the new DDP office site.

On moving day we gathered at the old office and loaded two trucks that made multiple trips to the new office. Click here to see the activity at the old office.

After a lot of thought and planning, it was time to make the move, and the first step was to box up everything in the old DDP office and get it ready for the moving trucks. Click here to see the activity.

After reaching an agreement with the landlord about using his property for the new location of the Deaf Development Programme, we started visiting the site to make plans. Click here to see some of the planning trips in October and November.

We moved our office to a new site last week (I’ll be starting a series of photos about that tomorrow) and today we got a surprise at the new site when the main waterline from the street broke. It took us a long time to find and dig up the cutoff valve and then it wouldn’t work so we plugged the incoming pipe with a cap held on by a brick and the concrete buttress until Sokly our director could run out and get a piece of replacement pipe and get it connected. Well done, Sokly!

Last week we celebrated graduations for our Year 2 students in Phnom Penh and Kampong Cham and Kampot Provinces.  Click here to see the graduation ceremony in Phnom Penh.

Recently DDP was contacted by a local station’s producer who wanted to do a short segment on DDP and its work.  Today he came to interview a couple of our staff and one of the deaf students.  We hope to see the results on air in a few days!

This is the beginning of a new section to chronicle the moving of the DDP offices to the former Seedling of Hope grounds.  Click here to go to the new home page for this section.

Today Jonathan Hooker (black shirt), a really fine advisor to the deaf program at Krousar Thmey, came to say goodbye to us at DDP as he finishes his volunteer term.  Jonathan has been instrumental in linking Krousar Thmey and the Deaf Development Programme and in arranging financing and keeping our sign language committee functioning.  His replacement will be Juliet who came with him today.  On the right is Keat Sokly, the co-director of DDP.