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People and activities in the Cambodian deaf world
This week we had another farewell at the Deaf Development Programme as our social worker, Tay Vannarith (R), bade farewell to the rest of the DDP staff. Vannarith set up our social work program eight years ago and has been a faithful and dedicated source of help to the deaf community that will be sorely missed.
The visitors returned from Siem Reap this evening and we went to a final dinner together. Click here for a photo from the restaurant. Tomorrow morning early they fly back to Malaysia.
[Somehow, somewhere the photos from Thursday and Saturday have been misplaced! If I ever find them on my computer, I’ll let you know!]
On their first full day in Cambodia, our visitors from the Catholic deaf program in Malaysia visited the Deaf Development Programme. Click here to see some of those pictures.
The past three days we have had a visit from members of the Catholic deaf community in Malaysia. Click here to see their activities on Sunday. Photos from their first three days will come later (when they are found!)
Today we at the Deaf Development Programme had a visit from Ms. Ikumi Kawamata (second left) from the Nippon Foundation in Japan. Here she is with our Sign Language Project staff and her interpreter John (far right).
On the weekend the deaf community had a Khmer New Year party. Today the DDP staff in Phnom Penh had a simple but delicious and fun lunch together. Click here to see what it was like.
April13-15 is the official Khmer New Year but the deaf people will go to their home provinces then so there was a new year celebration today at the Deaf Development Programme office in Phnom Penh. Click here to see the activities.
The Finnish Association of the Deaf and Maryknoll Cambodia jointly sponsor the Deaf Development Programme serving the people of Cambodia, and every year Johanna Karinen, FAD’s representative, comes to Phnom Penh to listen to reports and to plan for the year ahead. This year her visit is from 18-25 March.
When I was in Sihanoukville yesterday I didn’t have the photos from the ANM meetings in Phnom Penh on Thursday so I posted the Friday photos and skipped Thursday. Not it’s time to go back to Thursday. Click here to go straight to the Thursday page or scroll down to the Thursday-dated post and go to the page from there.
The Finnish Association of the Deaf and Maryknoll Cambodia jointly sponsor the Deaf Development Programme serving the people of Cambodia, and every year Johanna Karinen, FAD’s representative, comes to Phnom Penh to listen to reports and to plan for the year ahead. This year her visit is from 18-25 March.