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People and activities in the Cambodian deaf world
On 14 August, Kaitlynn Himmelreich finished up her two months of research with the deaf community here in Cambodia and got on the plane to return to her student life in the US where classes begin next Monday. Kaitlynn adjusted well to life in Cambodia and was really able to integrate with and communicate with the deaf people wherever she them. Here she is presenting to Charlie Dittmeier a thank-you card acknowledging the good experiences she had in Cambodia.
DDP has become quite well known in the deaf world since 1997 and many deaf people–individuals and groups–come to see us. This past week, Hosanna Church in Busan, Korea visited. They are a deaf congregation and we had a good visit.
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.