Cambodia houses

You might expect houses in different countries and different climates to be built differently, with sometimes striking dissimilarities.

Notice this difference in a modern Cambodia bathroom. There is an aperture in the wall and half of it is glass brick. That is to let some light into a closed room when there is no power. Or when the homeowner doesn’t turn on the electricity because it’s so expensive.

The other half of the aperture has ventilation bricks installed, to let air circulate through this room and the rest of the house for cooling.

This particular aperture opens into an inside corridor, over the stairway coming up from the first floor.

High water

The silver gate is the front of the house where I live and this is the first time the flood waters have reached our gate. The intersection where the children are playing floods frequently but the water usually stops by the boy in the red shirt. I wasn’t home for the rainfall yesterday but it must have been really heavy.

Hong Kong visitor

Yesterday, Mandy, a young deaf woman from Hong Kong, visited DDP to learn more about our program. She knows some of the Hong Kong deaf people I used to work with. Now she is a government civil servant and working on a masters degree. Here she is with Sophy, our Education Project manager.