Many of our Basic Education students never had the opportunity to attend school before meeting DDP. This past week in Kampot, the year one students were working on their six multiplication table. With the help of visual aids, sign, and manipulatives, the teacher explained that 6×2 is the same as 6+6 is the same as […]
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Many of the deaf students that come to DDP grew up in families that farmed for a living. After a number of years offering job training opportunities, DDP realized many of those seeking job training wanted to remain living with their families and farming in the province. This led to the DDP pilot project for […]
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This past weekend, DCC in Kampot led a workshop for more than 40 deaf people based on the Good Touch, Bad Touch flipchart put together by our partner Love 146. DCC field worker Chamroeun from Phnom Penh and Kampot field worker Sarith went through the power point telling the story of students that suffer sexual […]
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The journey to teach in the field is a long one but, after arriving, the actual work begins. (Check out yesterday’s blog if you missed the journey)
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Two days each week, the field workers – along with an interpreter – in Kampong Cham head out to more remote areas of the province to teach sign language to groups of deaf students that have never before had the opportunity to learn sign language. Months of preparation must occur – working through commune leaders, […]
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While many of the deaf students in our Basic Education Project are very vocal, walking up to the classroom in Kampong Cham, often the only indication that class is in session is that there is no lock on the door. Kampong Cham is home to 31 basic education students, divided between the year one and […]
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The Disability Action Council, under the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans, and Youth in Cambodia, hosted a ceremony to honor the International Day of the Deaf today. The students from DDP’s Basic Education Project, member of the Deaf community, and DDP staff attended along with our partners at Krousar Thmey and many other NGOs working […]
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Yesterday, DDP was visited by our friend Patrick who is working to put together an interactive computer program that will aid in teaching CSL.
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Caritas Australia, one of DDP’s most valued supporters, came to visit us! This team of five had the opportunity to visit our barbershop – Chris even got his hair cut by our job training participants. They also met with the management team to learn more about the work of DDP and visited our first year […]
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Yesterday, our Deaf Warriors played their second to last game of the season against Union Club. It was, by far, one of the best matches of the season.
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