We 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 […]
Continue ReadingLast week, our DCC staff in Kampong Cham hosted an informational workshop on drug use, abuse and awareness. They had sixty people attend including current and past DDP students and other Deaf community members, some who attend school with our partner, Krousar Thmey. Kampong Cham staff are making an effort to provide opportunities, at least […]
Continue ReadingAt DDP, we try very hard to set-up an accepting learning environment. We recognize some of those joining our Basic Education Project have never before attended school. The students in Kampot took that to a whole new level this week by welcoming a new student. Some of the little kids were picking on […]
Continue ReadingBy our own estimates (because we have not been able to find great statistics anywhere else) there are likely more than 51,000 deaf people living in the country of Cambodia. Between DDP and our partner Krousar Thmey, we have probably reached a few thousand individuals with education and other social supports. DDP is the only […]
Continue ReadingEvery five years, the International Congress on the Education of the Deaf is held to bring together various stakeholders to share experiences and learn from best practices of others. This year, Fr. Charlie Dittmeier and Mrs. Thuch Sophy attended as representatives of the Deaf Development Programme. Sophy shared that it was a great opportunity for her […]
Continue ReadingFor the past nine months, the Deaf Amazons (the Deaf Community Center’s women’s soccer team) and the Mighty Grannies (an expat and Khmer pick-up soccer team that formed to give the Amazons someone to scrimmage) have been practicing and scrimmaging on a monthly basis. One of our strongest players and coaches will be returning to the […]
Continue ReadingThis week Keat Sokly and Charlie Dittmeier, the directors of DDP, made an official visit to the DDP center in Kampot. They visited the two DDP classrooms to meet the students and teachers and then had a meeting with the Kampot staff, just to see how things are going. Then they visited DDP House, the […]
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