Charlie is on a trip to Australia to work with Caritas Australia, a DDP donor. The trip started off OK; the reporting about it in these pages has been a disaster. The center where I am staying has terrible wi-fi connections and finally Saturday night I had to just give up and go to bed after I could not upload these pages with 1.5 hours of trying. Click here to finally see what the first day of the trip was like.
Category: Deaf
People and activities in the Cambodian deaf world
Getting Ready for a Trip
These are some of young deaf men participating in our DDP job training to become barbers. This morning I dropped in for a quick trim of my beard as I prepare to head to Australia to speak to donors about Caritas Australia who gives money to the Deaf Development Programme. That’s the name on the shirts of the guys on the left and on the right. I leave in about an hour and will return to Phnom Penh on 2 March.
Another Year Older
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Each month we have a birthday celebration for the staff of DDP born in that month. Yesterday we had a celebration for January and February. For some reason we couldn’t hold the usual celebration in January so we combined it with the February event.
Graduation in Kampot Province
Following the graduations in Phnom Penh on Christmas Day and in Kampong Cham Province on Boxing Day, we had graduations in Kampot Province on December 27th. Click here for photos from the day.
Graduation in Kampong Cham Province
Christmas Day saw the graduation of our Education Project students in Phnom Penh. The next day we had graduation for our students in Kampong Cham Province. Click here to see pictures from the ceremony.
Christmas Season 2017 #6
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We don’t celebrate Christmas at the Deaf Development Programme because this Buddhist country makes no connection between Christmas and the birth of Jesus and we don’t want to introduce the commercialization of Christmas and Santa Claus into the culture. But today we had an unplanned Christmas party thanks to the generosity of the landlady of our DDP office building. Click here to see what happened.
Social Security in Cambodia
Several years ago, Cambodia started to develop a social security system for the welfare and protection of its citizens. It was implemented just three or four years ago with the introduction of a scheme to care for workers injured on the job, what would be called workmen’s compensation in the United States. This year a second phase is being rolled out, a healthcare plan; and a third phase, old age pensions will be introduced a few years from now.
Because the plan is relatively new and not well understood, an official from the National Social Security Fund came to Maryknoll today to speak to representatives of the Khmer employees of Maryknoll’s six projects.
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DDP Staff Retreat 4
Today was basically a travel day. We left the retreat center after breakfast, made a stop at the big market in Sihanoukville, and then headed north to Phnom Penh and points beyond (for the Kampong Cham team). Click here to see the pictures.
DDP Staff Retreat 3
Day Three was spent half at the center and half at the beach. Click here to see more of what we did.
DDP Staff Retreat 2
This full day was spent at the retreat center in Sihanoukville. Click here to see what happened on Day Two.