What makes a good teacher? That was the question addressed in yesterday’s workshop at DDP. Maly, our interpreting project manager, facilitated the workshop with many different activities that allowed teachers to share their experiences. One participant, after the workshop, was excited about the new concepts she learned: the importance of classroom management and learning to […]
Continue ReadingWhile the world’s eyes are on Canada for the latest results from the women’s world cup, we at DDP were participating in the ISF bi-annual football tournament. We had four male teams and three female teams representing DDP and played matches against one another and teams from our partners Krousar Thmey and Epic Arts. […]
Continue ReadingAs part of the meeting of all the Caritas Australia Mekong area partners, a site visit was arranged to the Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme. The larger meeting group was divided into two smaller groups and one came to DDP in the morning and the other in the afternoon. Caritas Australia funds the DDP Job Training […]
Continue ReadingCaritas Australia is a long-standing, faithful funder of the Maryknoll Deaf Development Programme. This week three of the Caritas staff from Sydney were in Phnom Penh for a four-day meeting with the NGOs and agencies in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam who receive their funding. Here is a photo of the participants looking at feedback from […]
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“He is mute, too, and knows how to read and write? In English, too?” This was the reaction of one woman to one of our Deaf field workers. We met her out in the villages, 57 kilometers from the city of Kampong Cham. This woman had never been to the city of Kampong Cham and was […]
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The Deaf Community Development project strives to provide new opportunities and experiences for Deaf Cambodians. For our Basic Education students, weekends are an opportunity for learning outside the classroom and seeing parts of their country they have never before visited. This past weekend DCC Kampong Cham headed to check out the bamboo bridge and water […]
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… included as equals in all aspects of Cambodian Society. This is the very end of our mission statement that adorns the wall at the entrance to our office. Our social services project manager, Vannarith, is one of the folks that really helps to make this happen. Throughout the week, he is rarely in his […]
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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 […]
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