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I have been doing this job for six or seven
years and it's something that is creative, something that is my art, something I'm doing,
when I'm tailoring, when I'm making clothes and somebody wears that, somebody wears that
and they feel happy and I feel proud, I feel satisfied that I made somebody happy.
So I really like it because I'm helping another human being.
I know that someone, an elderly or senior citizen in the community needs help and I can
provide this help and support.
I can do something, it gives me a lot of satisfaction and pride.
The sewing program here at Curtin has been going for over a year.
It's very important for the clients to continue the skills they have learnt in the past.
We've done projects in town at the Nunga Women's Centre where we produced clothing for
them and from May this year we started a project with the nursing home in town whereby
clients have been designing and making pillows, doona covers and curtains.
The Department of Immigration approached us saying that they've got guys from the
detention centre who were happy to offer their services freely.
They had different professions and quite a few of them were tailors and they're very
skilful, very professional and very neat, very neat, yeah, we appreciate their services.
Activities are very important here at the centre in terms of keeping clients busy,
keeping them active and the good thing about the sewing program is that it allows the
clients to connect with the Derby community and the advantage of that is that they get to
meet people in the community, make new friends and learn a little bit about Australia.
I think it's very important because it sort of gives the residents that are out at Curtin
an idea what Derby's like and Derby residents get to see that those people are really
nice and are able to work with them.