Whether hearing or deaf, youth have many of the same challenges here in Cambodia. This past weekend eighteen youth from The Deaf Development Programme had the opportunity to join with around 100 youth from other Maryknoll sponsored NGOs to build friendships and serve some of the poor here in Cambodia at a Youth Encounter. The […]
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The World Cup has come and gone but soccer is still the talk of DDP. A few weeks back, we introduced you to the Deaf Warriors – a deaf soccer team of the Phnom Penh Deaf community. Each week these men gather to practice and play a hearing team in a local league. Click below […]
Continue ReadingFor the next three weeks, fifteen DDP staff – including CSL teachers, basic education teachers, and AVI volunteer Bill Mahony- will be attending a training in Phnom Penh led by the Pre-College Education Network (P-CEN). P-CEN is a project of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, NY. P-CEN will be leading training […]
Continue ReadingOne of the challenges and one of the goals of the Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme is to bring together deaf people from all parts of Cambodia and from different backgrounds so that they acquire a sense of deaf identity and of deaf community. One vehicle for accomplishing that is sports, and today the first deaf […]
Continue ReadingThis is the rainy season in Cambodia, with the months of heaviest rainfall (September and October) still to come, but on 4 July we had a tremendous rainstorm and for the first time our Deaf Development Programme office flooded. When the water in the street got about ten inches deep, it came into the open […]
Continue ReadingAustralian Volunteers International has been a partner with the Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme for several years. First AVI recruited Selwyn Hoffman who has worked as an activities coordinator with us for two years. Now AVI has found Bill Mahony (center) who comes to us from Melbourne. He has only been in the country for […]
Continue ReadingThe Deaf Development Programme has been running a sign language course since November. The classes ended in May and today there was a small graduation ceremony at the DDP office. The Sign Language Project is one of six projects at DDP. In its first phase, it concentrated on identifying and recording Cambodian signs, eventually publishing […]
Continue ReadingLast week it seemed the landlord of the DDP office building was paving the muddy area beside the building. It turned out he had just got construction workers on a site nearby to empty their concrete truck on the site. Over night we went from deep ruts in mud to deep ruts in newly hardened […]
Continue ReadingFive or six years ago, several DDP staff members attended a conference in Indonesia of the Asia-Pacific Region of the World Federation of the Deaf. Today some of the deaf people from that conference in Jakarta came to visit the Deaf Development Programme in Phnom Penh. On the left are two deaf men from Japan. […]
Continue ReadingThe road next to the Deaf Development Programme office in Phnom Penh has never been fully opened. The end at the far right of the picture is permanently blocked by squatters. The area here beside the DDP office was previously blocked by squatters but the landlord for our building (the large building behind the wall […]
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