Last 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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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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