This week we had the pleasure of meeting Katrina Garvey from Australia, along with her mentor Libby Best and interpreter Pam Spicer; who are here in Cambodia for a couple of weeks on a study tour. Katrina, who is deaf, is studying a Bachelor of Photography at Queensland College of Art at Griffith University in Brisbane. She […]
Continue ReadingLast Saturday we said farewell to Jaana, Marko and their lovely interpreters from the Finnish Association of the Deaf (FAD), after an informative and fun-filled week. In the morning we toured the town and took in the main sights of Phnom Penh, along with a trip to the markets for a little shopping. After a quick break, we headed […]
Continue ReadingToday Jaana, president of the Finnish Association of the Deaf, started her week visiting DDP and seeing the projects FAD has been supporting for almost 17 years. The day was packed full of meetings with project managers but after the day was done, our Deaf staff had an opportunity to just sit and chat with […]
Continue ReadingAs the Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme has become better known, more and more visitors, especially deaf people, have made their way to our offices and activities. Partly that is because a former DDP staff—Ms. Ronise Barreras–settled in Kampot Province and started Hands On Travel, a tour agency serving deaf clients from around the world. […]
Continue ReadingToday, at DCC Phnom Penh, we welcome a team from` Wesley Methodist Church in Singapore. This morning, the team is leading a workshop on unlocking limitations. Around 25 Deaf community member have turned up to participate and learn with the team of nine from Singapore. This afternoon, the whole group will participate in soccer training. […]
Continue ReadingThis past weekend, students from around Asia, participating in the Signis Media for Peace workshop, came by our women’s soccer practice to hone their journalism skills. Beyond interview techniques, they had to learn to work with an interpreter and the challenges of covering a sporting event when people are on the move. We look forward […]
Continue ReadingWe were very pleased to welcome seven visitors from Tokyo, Japan to learn more about DDP. This was also the first tour organized and led by the Deaf staff, tour group committee – staff volunteers who have been training about DDP history for the past few months. Sopor introduced DDP’s vision and a brief […]
Continue ReadingOn Monday, DDP hosted an all-day interpreters training with representatives from our partners Krousar Thmey and Epic Arts. The goal of the training was professional development, experience sharing, and learning new signs (as the Sign Language Committee continues to establish new signs daily). Check out some of the highlights below. Each interpreter had to […]
Continue ReadingHong Kimhak (center) has been with us at DDP since 2009 when he was hired as the manager for the Job Training Project. Job Training may be the single most difficult project at the Deaf Development Programme because it involves recruiting students from around the country, negotiating with their parents, maintaining a hostel for 35± […]
Continue ReadingThis is the rainy season in Cambodia, and today it rained. Really rained. We have had rains almost every day for the past couple weeks but today it poured twice in about four hours. And this is the result–a flooded Street 101 in front of the DDP office. The water was knee deep in the […]
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