This was a day with another trip that was a new experience for Sokly—a trip to one of the outlying islands–and then I ended the day with dinner with friends from Hong Kong. Click here to see the pictures.
Category: Deaf
People and activities in the Cambodian deaf world
Hong Kong Trip — Saturday P.M.
Sokly and I visited quite a few places of interest in the morning and then in the afternoon went to the pastoral center on the Kowloon side for the liturgy to begin the anniversary celebration. It was a good opportunity to see again old friends–former students when I was at the deaf school. Click here to see the photos.
Return from Hong Kong
I just returned from Hong Kong a couple hours ago (it’s 10:44 PM Tuesday night here) and there isn’t time to continue the updates today. I’ll post Saturday afternoon’s photos on Wednesday morning our time.
The picture above is from the fishing fleet tied up in the Cheung Chau harbor.
Hong Kong Trip — Saturday A.M.
Today was an opportunity to show Keat Sokly around Hong Kong before we went to the anniversary celebration for the Catholic deaf group. Click here to see places and activities in the morning.
Hong Kong Trip — Friday
Click here to see pictures from Friday in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Trip — Thursday
The Hong Kong Catholic Pastoral Association of the Deaf is celebrating their fortieth anniversary and invited me back to be part of it. Click here to see day one of the trip.
Deaf Day Celebration 2017
Every year deaf communities around the world celebrate a Deaf Day (sometimes a Deaf Week) to give deaf people a chance to come together and to put on programs of deaf awareness so that others can understand about deaf people. Click here for pictures of our Deaf Day celebration in Cambodia.
Deaf Day 2017
Every year in September there is a celebration of Deaf Day in countries around the world, or Deaf Week as here in Cambodia. Today was our big celebration to climax Deaf Week. I couldn’t arrive till almost two o’clock because of the morning mass and because of a trip to the morgue for a parishioner who died yesterday. When I did arrive, I was totally surprised because they turned the celebration into one honoring me. Our Deaf Development Programme started in 1997 so this is our twentieth anniversary. 1997 was also the first time I came to Cambodia so my coming was included in the anniversary celebration. And because this is the “birthday” of DDP, it became a birthday celebration for me, too, notwithstanding that I was born in February. All the different celebrations got conflated together but the bottom line is that they had made a banner wishing me all the Buddhist blessings and they gave me a variety of gifts they had made. It was a genuine surprise for me and much appreciated. Come back to see more about Deaf Day in Cambodia.
Visit of Siloam Funders 2
On Day 2 of the visit of the funders from the Siloam Center for the Blind, their team went with DDP staff to visit three deaf youth in Kampot Province who were raising pigs and chickens and ducks. Click here to see pictures from the day.
Visit of Siloam Funders
One of the funders of DDP is the Siloam Center for the Blind in Korea. This week they came to Phnom Penh to visit the Deaf Development Programme and to meet the beneficiaries of their funding. Click here to see Day 1 of their visit.