Rohingya Community Bridge

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Send a Rohingya Message

Build and share audio messages in Rohingya via WhatsApp

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Health

Search medical phrases with English and Rohingya audio

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Send a message in English

🤒 🆘 🏠 📅 🛒 ❓ → 📲 WhatsApp

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Craft Club

Sewing tutorials in Rohingya language for our weekly Craft Club

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Dictionary

English words with Rohingya audio pronunciation, A–Z

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Games

Test your Rohingya and English vocabulary with fun word games

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🧵 Craft Club

Welcome to the Rohingya Craft Club. Our club meets once a week and these videos will help you learn sewing skills using instructions in the Rohingya language.

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Introduction to Sewing

Getting started — tools and basic stitches

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How To 1 — Unpacking & Setup

Getting the sewing machine out of the box and set up ready to use

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How To 2 — Parts of the Machine

A guide to the different parts of the sewing machine and what they do

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How To 3 — Bobbin & Sewing

How to replace the bobbin and get started with sewing

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How To 4 — Sewing Display

An overall demonstration of sewing from start to finish

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🧵 Sewing Words

Sewing Machine

Thread

Bobbin

Scissors

Pins

Quilting Pins

Tape Measure

Overlocker

Fabric

Iron

Ironing Board

Cutting Board

Cutting Wheel

Woollen Blanket

📋 Craft Club Guidelines

1. The sewing machine is only on loan to you.

2. The loan sewing machine belongs to the Craft Club.

3. You must attend Craft Club regularly to keep the sewing machine loaned to you.

4. If your sewing machine does not work, you must message Michele on WhatsApp. She will collect and take to be repaired. If the sewing machine has been damaged by your children, the cost to fix will be paid by you.

5. If you move away from Blenheim you must return your sewing machine to the Craft Club.

6. Can you please pack the sewing machine you have been using back in its box before you leave.

7. Take note of how your machine is threaded before changing the cotton.

8. Please check to make sure you have the bobbin in the correct way.

9. When you have the machine you are using threaded correctly, please run a short line of stitching on a piece of scrap fabric to ensure the tension is correct.

10. If you want to look for fabric in our storeroom, you must ask Michele first. If she is not at class ask one of our other volunteers. Do not help yourself. This donated fabric is to be shared amongst everyone.

11. We are sewing for charity today.

12. The "With love" bags and KIN (Kids in need) bags are donated to families in need at Wairau Hospital.

13. The quilts we are making are gifted to sick children in Wairau Hospital.