With more than 200 participants, from all over Cambodia, Deaf Day on Saturday was a huge success and great finale for International Week of the Deaf in Cambodia. We started out in the morning with three theatrical performance, one from each of the DDP locations – Kampong Cham, Kampot, and Phnom Penh. Each performance addressed a different topic selected by the […]
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The DDP offices in Phnom Penh have returned to the normal level of activity after International Week of the Deaf. Today, Wednesday, the the management level staff have begun meetings to plan for 2015. They are discussing best practices and program planning, with a special workshop on collaboration led by Finance Manager, Nancy Davies. Staff […]
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Fr. Brendan Mulhall is a priest of the Mill Hill Mission group in England. The Mill Hill priests group is the British counterpart of the Maryknoll mission group in the United States. Fr. Brendan has come to Cambodia to discern the signs of the times and to consider future possibilities where his group might work. […]
Continue ReadingAs a part of the International Week of the Deaf, Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme is sending our teachers to organizations around Phnom Penh and offering a free introduction class in CSL. So far, in just two days, we have taught nearly 150 people some basic sign language. We want to add you to that list! […]
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Today, we kicked-off the International Week of the Deaf festivities here in Phnom Penh with an opening ceremony attended by H.E. Sem Sokha, Secretary of State of Social Affairs, Veterans, and Youth Rehabilitation, other government officials, Deaf community members, and their family and friends. Some of the members of the Deaf community signed the national […]
Continue ReadingNext week, 1-6 September, the Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme will celebrate the International Deaf Week. This week most of the staff are preparing exhibits, activities, and various programs that will fill the six days. This morning the members of the interpreter training program spread their materials over the meeting room floor to prepare some cards […]
Continue ReadingLOVE 146 is an NGO focusing on issues of the sex trade, particularly protection of children from trafficking and abuse. They have offered workshops to train the staffs of NGOs who work with children in order that they might better protect those in their care, and today the Love 146 staff provided training to the […]
Continue ReadingFor the past three weeks, professors and trainers from the Pre-College Education Network (P-CEN) at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, New York were in Phnom Penh, offering training in deaf education to the education staffs of the Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme and of Krousar Thmey deaf schools. This was a first-time […]
Continue ReadingYesterday, a team from the Deaf Development Programme attended the International School of Phnom Penh (ISPP) ‘s NGO Fair. We had a booth with photos and information about our projects, our Program Manager spoke about our work during a number of small group sessions, and two of our Cambodian Sign Language teachers taught some basics […]
Continue ReadingThis past Monday, four new DDP Job Training participants began tailoring classes at a local job training center. These four women will spend one-year learning all the basics of tailoring, from taking accurate measurements to making their own patterns. The students work alongside hearing students and will have an interpreter available, though, the instructor has […]
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