Welcome to Cambodia, and…..

Today was Johanna’s last day in Cambodia.  She did some shopping for gifts for her family and then stopped by DDP for a final visit with the local deaf community.  Click here and scroll down to Saturday.

Today was a lighter day for everyone except Johanna who had a series of meetings with individuals. Click here and then scroll down to Friday.

Yesterday was spent sitting around the meeting table but this morning was spent shooting video for the seven short films Kalle is making.  Then in the afternoon the meetings resumed.  Click here and then scroll down to Thursday.

The Deaf Development Programme office was closed today for the celebration of Women’s Day, a public holiday in Cambodia, but Johanna Karinen met with Keat Sokly and Charlie Dittmeier all day long, away from the office.  And Johanna was joined by two colleagues who arrived from Finland.  Click here and scroll down to Wednesday.

Tuesday was the second day of meetings with Johanna Karinen and we discussed the logframe analysis, checking that we included all the activities and had the required indicators for monitoring.  Click here.

Every year a project coordinator from the Finnish Association of the Deaf comes to Cambodia for a week of Annual Negotiations Meetings (ANM) about the FAD’s funding of the Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme.  Johanna Karinen, FAD’s representative, arrived yesterday and we began our meetings today.  Click here.

DDP celebrated International Women’s Day on Sunday rather than on Wednesday of this week in order to make it more accessible to more of the deaf community.  The Catholic Church Student Center allowed us to set up our tents in their spacious yard.  Click here to see the activities.