| The meeting this year was held at the Korean Ecumenical Diakonia Centre because our staff has grown too large for any of the meeting rooms in our own buildings. To begin the day, Keat Sokly, the DDP manager, welcomed the group, some of whom had to come to Phnom Penh yesterday to be ready for this morning's session. |
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| Our biggest project is the Deaf Community Development Project, mostly based in Kampong Cham Province. The manager there is Kong Chanratha, seen here giving a report on the project's activities. The other projects also gave reports. |
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| We started at 7:30 in the morning and had two breaks before lunch. The first break was upstairs on the covered roof terrace where the centre has a kitchen to serve snacks and tea and coffee. |
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| After lunch Justin Smith and Charlie Dittmeier talked about DDP's direction. Here Charlie speaks about the vision and mission and values of the Deaf Development Programme. |
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| In addition to planning the meeting (very successfully), Keat Sokly also served as technician for most of the day, keeping various laptops and the projector in synch. |
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| The afternoon break was more simple than the morning break but included these delicious almost-pizza snacks. |
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| After the break Justin took a turn explaining other points of DDP policy. One point that generated a lot of discussion was the policy of allowing loans against a staff member's accumulated severance pay. Management had changed the policy somewhat to limit the availability and amount of loans in order to ensure that staff members have their severance funds available when they are finally needed. |
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