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.
ANM (Wednesday)
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.
ANM (Tuesday)
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.
ANM (Monday)
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.
Women’s Day
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.
Topics: Wood #9
You’ve seen pictures of the way the heavy furniture, especially the stools, is found in commercial shops. Click here to see how the furniture appears in offices.
Topics: Wood #8C
Here are more samples of the variety of places where the heavy wooden furniture can be found. It’s just hard to imagine how it is everywhere. Click here for the photos.
Motorcycle Loads #222
“Hold on up there! I’m gonna do a wheelie!”
Technology and Deaf People
Technology has really benefited the deaf community. Twenty, thirty years ago, communications among deaf people was either face-to-face or via TTY or TDD machines attached to telephone landlines. Now, with the advent of smartphones and cheaper data service availability, deaf people can communicate more readily, like this young deaf woman signing to her friend on a smartphone Facebook Messenger connection.
Topics: Wood #8B
Here is the second set of photographs of commercial places that display the heavy wooden furniture that is so valued by the community. Click here to see the pictures.