Like One Big Happy Family This scene up at Bohol Deaf Academy one evening last week was not staged for the camera. Dennis Drake just dropped in and found the deaf kids sitting around on the stage and at a couple of tables doing random projects and chatting. The atmosphere was so very peaceful and […]
Visiting Canadian Chefs CESO (Canadian Executive Service Organization)teamed up with IDEA this February to help improve the food and service of IDEA’s various restaurant businesses. Altogether the two Garden Cafes and Dao Diamond Hotel employ 14 deaf cooks and bakers. Some of these cooks have been working with us for almost 30 years and although
CESO (Canadian Executive Service Organization)teamed up with IDEA this February to help improve the food and service of IDEA’s various restaurant businesses.
A New Hotel Theme We recently discovered that one of IDEA’s deaf carpentry employees has an amazing ability at sculpting. Because our Dao Diamond Hotel has changed its motif to Polynesian it was thought that we needed a Tiki or two around to add to the atmosphere so Arnold the carpenter was given a small
The homes are built in our IDEA shop by our deaf carpenters. We are not able to go down to a Home Depot and buy the lumber. Instead we have to order the lumber rough cut by chainsaw and then bring it into our shop to mill it down to ship-lap siding and studs. It is a very labor and equipment intensive effort. The homes are then either built in knockdown form or totally assembled and delivered to the building site on a trailer or truck.
