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Sewing.

My mother gave me her sewing machine.

Look. Sewing machines. Looks like a television commercial.

And this is what he did, a sewing machine in Uttar Pradesh.

She was very much like those women sitting behind the sewing machines.

Do you have a sewing needle?

Number of sewing courses 13

But I need sewing needles.

Students with outstanding performance and others who cannot afford their own sewing machines are awarded donated sewing machines at successful completion of the course.

These were often donations of cows, chickens, agricultural machines and tools, sewing and knitting machines, as well as courses from different areas.

Forty graduates of sewing courses at the Khan Eshieh centre were employed by a local clothing factory.

I used to do a great deal of sewing when I was a girl.

Yeah, we have the best embroiderers in the world!

Following a successful pilot project, the 11 month sewing course was replaced at all centres with two six month fee based courses in basic and advanced sewing techniques, more geared to market demands.

The occupational rehabilitation of persons with disabilities should be viewed as one of the most topical groups of activities for ensuring an appropriate social functioning of persons with disabilities.

Women's professions in rural areas consist primarily of teacher, medical worker, accountant, economist and seamstress, as well as certain purely farm professions_such as dairymaid, agronomist and veterinarian.

I can't sew. I can't cook. You certainly can't.

While you are reading to me, I can do my sewing.

A needle's nothing but a hunk of steel if you've got nothing to sew.

Great. I bet I don't flunk sewing, after all.

ICTs are contributing to the automation of production activities, including weaving and knitting machines, sewing machines, numerically controlled machine tools, and continuous process control in chemical and petrochemical plants.

And if we could just teach her to sew and get her a nice job in a factory, all would be well.

And I learned about profit and revenue, about leverage, all sorts of things, from farmers, from seamstresses, from goat herders.

2. Women who do sewing work at home must receive a salary at least equivalent to an official daily wage of women employed in workshops.

In response to requests from the Centre for Women apos s Development (CEDEM), courses in tailoring, garment making, beauty care and building (two participants) have been provided, benefiting some 30 women.

My grandmother had tuberculosis, and she worked in a sewing machine shop, making shirts for about 10 cents an hour.

In the 1950s, Hong Kong was a place where millions of people could go, from the mainland, to start in jobs like sewing shirts, making toys.

Pakistani women have an almost exclusive responsibility in works such as embroidery, tailoring, weaving, leatherwork, pottery, ceramics and food processing.

During his visit to Kabul, the Special Rapporteur was informed that virtually the only possibilities Afghan women had to work were in projects such as quilt making, sewing, washing laundry and teaching the Koran.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo WCTU holds sewing classes to help women improve their lives.

Notable among these are nearly 700 Dasktkari (embroidery etc.) Schools vocational training schools for destitute women which offer courses in cloth cutting, drafting and tailoring hand embroidery and knitting and machine embroidery.

The 15 WPCs in the Syria field provided training courses in sewing, computer skills and hair dressing to 3,555 women, of whom 961 had found employment in textile factories or in private or public enterprises by mid 1998.

Through Guiding and Scouting, many girls also learn income generating skills, such as Rhoa Stove making (energy efficient cooking) in Liberia, and dressmaking and industrial sewing in El Salvador.

All these have traditionally been seen as women apos s jobs, since they are similar to the work which women do at home (cooking, sewing, looking after children or other relatives, nursing the sick, decorating the home, etc.).

The Ministry of Education is currently endeavouring to convert women's technical education into one covering the subjects of sewing, household economics and arts.

Egypt WCTU has classes for young girls in which they are taught hygiene, reading and sewing.

And so she spent a year to save 50 dollars, and started borrowing, and over time she was able to buy a sewing machine.

The girls in the orphanage followed sewing and carpet weaving courses but were not allowed to leave the building in which they were housed.

And then you can either cut that out and sew it conventionally, or you can use the wet material to form it around a three dimensional shape.

Women's technical education is currently being converted into one covering the subjects of sewing, household economics and arts. It is open to males and females alike.

The homely virtues are so hard to find these days a woman who can sew and cook and bake, even if she doesn't have to.

I don't mean I'm not good for somebody... but I can't cook or sew or whip up a little dress... out of last year's window curtains.

Women are particularly active in the informal sector, where they pursue traditional economic activities (dyeing, dressmaking, hairdressing), as well as commercial, agroindustrial and modern activities (pharmacies, hotels, printing, private schools).

There are currently 71 special schools where women can learn sewing, knitting and basketwork.