Visit to Hagar--Page 2 The Deaf Development Program began job training in 2006 with six students in a pilot project in the Mith Samlanh NGO. They were so successful that we introduced another five deaf students to the training program at Hagar, an NGO that works with women and children who are vicitims of abusive and dangerous situations and trafficking. The women are offered job training during their stay and Hagar invited our deaf students to participate in the training also, learning commercial sewing skills.

DDP has five students studying sewing at Hagar, three girls and two boys. These boys were the first men ever to train at Hagar.   Celina Campas, a DDP education advisor; Sou Poly, the Skills Development Project officer; and Nanny Stenman speak with the sewing trainer. One of the girls, from Svay Rieng Province, speaking to Nanny Stenman and Charlie Dittmeier   Another student, from Phnom Penh, responds to questions from Nanny. The students from the provinces live in a DDP hostel. This young man was a former teacher's assistant in the DDP education project and decided to study sewing when the teaching jobs were phased out In the first group of five students at Hagar, three are from the provinces and two from Phnom Penh. The woman on the left is Minea, the sign language interpreter for the class.

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