Last month, Laura, a volunteer from Australia, led aerobics workshops for two days at the Deaf Community Center in Phnom Penh. Many Deaf community members turned out each day to participate and they definitely seem to have gotten a work-out!
Continue ReadingJoseph and I traveled into the Kampot provinces with a team of DDP staff members to recruit new deaf students. This activity was a part of DDP’s outreach initiative. The staff encouraged the deaf people to come and stay at the DDP house in Kampot where they would be provided with an education and job […]
Continue ReadingDDP loves seeing a world leader like Pope Francis learning such an important sign.
Continue ReadingAround the world, the first day of school is filled with anxieties, hopes, joys, dreams, and tears. On Monday, a new class of 36 students (divided between Phnom Penh, Kampot, and Kampong Cham) experienced this rush of emotions. For some, they traveled from a few hours away to move into one of our DDP houses, […]
Continue ReadingThis month, DDP welcomed two new volunteers. Joseph and Laura are both students at Macquerie University in Australia and will be serving with DDP for two months. Below are excerpts from Laura about their first days at DDP. Welcome Laura and Joseph… Joseph and I are from Sydney, Australia and are currently working with the […]
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Today, one of DDP’s first students came by for a visit and to look for people who may need their shoes to be shined. Back before DDP was DDP, our shoe-shine friend was a part of the first classes just sitting on the floor in a big circle learning word after word, sign after sign. […]
Continue Reading“Together, we can grow stronger” was the closing message of our Interpreting Workshop last week. The Deaf in attendance had the opportunity to share some of their hopes for the future of the interpreting profession in Cambodia. Some things were simple, like interpreters knowing where to stand and always signing if there is a Deaf […]
Continue ReadingThe past two days of our Interpreter Training have covered some of the hard topics such as professionalism, interpreting models, and codes of conduct. Paul, a 25-year interpreter from the United States, and John, a Filipino Interpreter, both shared the code of conduct in their countries and other aspects of the profession. Many of their […]
Continue ReadingSo much of communication is said without actual words. Messages can be conveyed with just a glance, anyone with a mother I am sure can attest to that fact. This week, thanks to our partner Krousar Thmey, DDP CSL teachers, interpreters, and interpreters-in-training have been practicing those skills in a workshop led by a delegation […]
Continue ReadingEvery year, IndoChina Starfish Foundation (ISF) hosts a soccer tournament specifically for Deaf Cambodians. This year, they were able to host two – the second of which took place this past Saturday. DDP had four male and three female teams participating. With each match, friends became enemies as they took the field brutally fighting for […]
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