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People and activities in the Cambodian deaf world
Krousar Thmey and the Deaf Development Programme jointly sponsor a sign language committee tasked with researching and promoting Cambodian Sign Language. The committee was supposed to receive training six or seven years ago but it didn’t work out.
Now Aaron Wong, a deaf man from Hong Kong, and Keat Sokly, the co-director of DDP, are offering three weeks of training. Both are trained sign language linguists.The committee members are meeting at DDP and are off to a really good start.
This was my last day in Europe. At least it started there, in Rome, and ended up in Asia as I flew to Bangkok overnight from Istanbul. Click here to see pictures from Istanbul.
I still want to post some more photos and commentary from my trip to Europe but just ran out of time today to prepare the pictures. I hope to get back to that on Friday.
The conference ended, I spent the day working at the Maryknoll house and then taking a last walk around Rome. Click here for sights from the day plus some pictures of the Maryknoll house in Rome.
This was the final day of the Catholic deaf conference. There was a sight-seeing tour in the morning and then a free afternoon with a dinner in the evening. Click here for view of the day.
Today was the most important day of the conference, with an opportunity to meet Pope Francis and some of his advisors. It was another day spent at the Vatican. Click here for some pictures from the day.
Today was the first full day of the conference and it involved touring the Vatican Museum and then celebrating a liturgy together in the afternoon. Click here to see some of the sights.
This was the day of the first activity of the DCYIA (Deaf Catholic Youth Initiative of the Americas) conference in Rome. I spent the morning working at the Collegio Maryknoll and then went to register for conference at 4:00 PM. Click here for photos from that trip.
Today I started with mass at St. Mary Major Basilica and then headed south to the ruins of Ostia on the coast. On my return trip I visited the old Roman Forum ruins before going home. Click here to see pictures from the day.
Today I was able to look forward to a week in the same place. In the morning I worked at Maryknoll in Rome and in the afternoon I went to get a phone card and bus pass and then visited St. Mary Major. Click here to see photos from the day.