Each year, DDP starts a new group of deaf adults in our agriculture project. These adults are typically graduates of the DDP Basic Education project or graduates of Krousar Thmey. When they were presented with different vocational training opportunities, each selected their preference to be learning animal husbandry – since most grew up in a […]
Continue ReadingDDP’s former-co-director, Justin Smith, was a big part of getting the Deaf Warriors (men’s football team) and then the Deaf Amazons (women’s football team) started. In his honor, we had one last match with him, before he moves to England. Check out the highlights below! This is the way that all goalies warm-up before […]
Continue Reading70 kilometers from Kampot, about a two hour moto ride, sits this lovely village. If you didn’t know where it was, you would likely turn around prior to arriving, thinking you had past the point where humanity lives. Yet, three times per week, DDP Field Workers make this 140km round-trip trek to visit one of […]
Continue ReadingDeaf Women Can! Guest speaker Ronise emphasized that theme throughout her talk, closing out our International Women’s Day celebration on Sunday. She shared success stories of Deaf women from around the world encouraging the women in the Cambodian Deaf community to reach for their dreams, pick a goal and work toward it. Earlier in […]
Continue ReadingLast week Arlinda Boland became the newest member of the Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme staff. Justin Smith, presently the manager of the Deaf Community Development Project, will be leaving Cambodia in April, and Arlinda will replace him in that role. Arlinda is from the United States but came to us from participating in a […]
Continue ReadingBy popular demand, PACE volunteer, Joseph, offered two technology related workshops at DCC last month. One focused on how to make a basic advertising poster, including backgrounds, text boxes, and inserting photos. The other was focused on how to make a meme (AKA those pictures with words that are popular on social media, they […]
Continue ReadingLast month, Laura, a volunteer from Australia, led aerobics workshops for two days at the Deaf Community Center in Phnom Penh. Many Deaf community members turned out each day to participate and they definitely seem to have gotten a work-out!
Continue ReadingJoseph and I traveled into the Kampot provinces with a team of DDP staff members to recruit new deaf students. This activity was a part of DDP’s outreach initiative. The staff encouraged the deaf people to come and stay at the DDP house in Kampot where they would be provided with an education and job […]
Continue ReadingEvery year, IndoChina Starfish Foundation (ISF) hosts a soccer tournament specifically for Deaf Cambodians. This year, they were able to host two – the second of which took place this past Saturday. DDP had four male and three female teams participating. With each match, friends became enemies as they took the field brutally fighting for […]
Continue ReadingBBQ, face paint, and cheering on your favorite team… This past weekend, we had a bit of a pep rally to support our Deaf Amazons women’s football team. More than 50 people turned out for the barbeque and pre-game festivities. The Deaf Amazons truly appreciate all the support!
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