Nanny Stenman Visit--Page 4 Our first experience in job training for deaf people was with the NGO called Mith Samlanh or Friends. Mith Samlanh was set up to work with the man street children of Phnom Penh. They have ten different skills that they teach to the boys and girls who are their clients, and they were willing to help us begin our skills training for deaf people. We put six of our students with them in March and their progress has been exceedingly good.

Justin (center) is the only expatriate on the staff of Mith Samlanh and it falls to him to welcome groups such as ours who come to see the work that the NGO is doing. He showed us a video of their operations and then explained their current direction and numbers of students. One of the deaf students (right) watches the interpreter who is relaying instructions from the trainer. There was a question how efficient deaf students could be in motorcycle repair, but they have performed very well. We are now going to have them tested to see if hearing aids will benefit any of them. You can see the long hair of the deaf student on the right, a young woman from DDP who wanted to learn motorcycle mechanics. She was Mith Samlanh's first girl to study in this area, but she has done very well. Nanny (right) speaks to Justin and a shop manager on the floor of one of the workshops. They report that the deaf students are doing better than the hearing students, a surprise for us! DDP also has three deaf people, two girls and one boy, who are learning sewing in another training workshop. Here they work with Sinoun (right), the sign language interpreter.

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