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Deaf Day Celebration
27-28 October 2012

 

Saturday  |  Sunday (Gathering)  |  (GAMES)  |  (General)

The Ministry of Social Affairs has begun to organize a Deaf Day celebration each year but it focuses more on the ministry than on deaf people. This year we sent a large contingent to their speeches and formalities, but for DDP, the real Deaf Day is for having fun. Part of the DDP celebration, the major part of the afternoon, was given over to very simple games that the deaf people really enjoy.

In this game, participants toss three tennis balls into the three rubbish bins tied to the vertical pole.
A ball-tossing game
The large wooden box swivels on a circular wooden base so that the player can guide the ball around the obstacles and into a hole at the far end of the table.
A ball rolling game
In this ball-tossing game, the aim is to get three of the balls into the basket suspended on a pole.
Another ball-tossing game
This was the first time I've seen this golf putting game in Cambodia. Probably none of those who tried it have ever used a golf club in their life.
A golf putting game
In this game, the competitors reach into large boxes filled with plastic or stuffed objects and animals and try to match items only by touch and feel.
A matching game
Many of the games are a race against time. In this game the contestants erect a tower of layers of wooden blocks. If they succeed within the allotted time, they receive a prize like a tube of toothpaste.
A game of stacking blocks
In this game, the contestants raced against time and against each other to unlock four padlocks with a handful of loose keys.
A race to unlock padlocks
In this simple game, the players use a cue stick to shoot a ball down the length of the bench into a small wooden basket on the ground--much harder than it looks.
A billiards type game
In this game, the players must find a card that matches one they pull from a deck before they start the race against the stop watch.
A card selection game
Another challenging game was this one where contestants blew colored ping-pong balls into the same colored wooden "C" on the left of the table.

The plastic containers at the bottom of the photo contained pieces of candy and the one who guessed the closest to the actual number, won the whole jar full of sweets.

A game of blowing ping-pong balls


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