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Sewing to Survive
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Length:
23 minutes
Released:
Jan 27, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Rina Roat is a successful clothes designer and entrepreneur from Cambodia, but she grew up far removed from the world of fashion. As a child, she had been abandoned and left homeless by her mother. Too poor to buy clothes, she turned to dressmaking – hand-stitching her first frock from a pair of old curtains when she was just 12 years old. It set Rina on a course to create her own clothing line, while never losing sight of another dream: finding out what happened to her mother and the family she never knew.
Presenter: Datshiane Navanayagam
Producer: Maryam Maruf
Image: Rina Roat
Credit: Courtesy of Rina Roat
Presenter: Datshiane Navanayagam
Producer: Maryam Maruf
Image: Rina Roat
Credit: Courtesy of Rina Roat
Released:
Jan 27, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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