DDP’s New Home

At the end of this year, Maryknoll’s Seedling of Hope HIV/AIDS project will close and the Deaf Development Programme will move to the Seedling office building and grounds.  Today the management of DDP visited Seedling with the landlord of the property to discuss the transition.  A large fish pond is one of the notable features of the grounds.

Notable Quotes

 

 

 

 

Cryptocurrency, that supposedly revolutionary and transformative technology: “if its rate of growth continues, by next year Bitcoin alone will account for the same level of carbon output as the entire United States.”

~ James Bridle in The New Yorker (September, 2018)

The Voice of Experience

Today Ratanak (standing) came back to the Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme to talk to our deaf Year 2 students.  Ratanak went through our Education Project and Job Training Project and became a barber, and now has a successful barbershop in Kandal Province.  He spoke to the students of coming to DDP and getting education and training and how that has changed his life.  He was a great inspirational speaker for our students.

Heavy Drinking

In the old days a case full of soft drinks in bottles was heavy.  Then we got a case of soft drinks in aluminum cans.  In Cambodia, coconuts don’t come in cases–rather in wagon loads–but you can believe they are heavy.  A big coconut like some of these could easily weight five or six pounds.  The driver cruises around until someone hails him, and then he uses a chopper (meat cleaver to Americans) to cut off enough of the top to insert a straw.

The Last Supper

Every Wednesday the Cambodia Mission Team of Maryknoll has a meeting and a liturgy and then a meal together. This week was Fr. Bob Wynne’s last time to be with us before he departs for a new assignment in the United States so today’s gathering was special as members of the CMT expressed their appreciation for his presence and his work and wished him well in his new work.

Bob was the presider at the liturgy we celebrated today.

 

At the end Sr. Ann Sherman (standing) formally thanked Bob and presented him with some small gifts (easy to carry in his suitcase!) to remind him of his time in Cambodia.