Rohingya Culture and Traditions (Part 7 out of 8)

Introduction (5 minutes)

• Welcome the participants
• Remind the participants that this workshop is part of the course about Rohingya Culture and Traditions
• Introduce today session (objective and how long it will be)

Ice-breaking game (10 minutes)

• Explain that you are going to do an ice-breaking game to warm up the participants and to help them to improve their listening and concentration skills during the session.
• Ask everyone to stand up in a scattered way
• Tell them that you are going to make some continuous rhythm. They have to hear the rhythm carefully. If the rhythm:

1. fastens, they have to move fast
2. slows down, they have to move slow
3. stops, they have to stop moving.

• Remind them to be careful of not pushing each other
• Do this game for 3 to 6 minutes
• Conclude the game by thanking the participants for their participation.

Step 3: Main activity

Part 1 – Review of the last workshop (5 minutes)

Ask the participants if they remember what was discussed in the last workshop. Encourage everyone to participate.

Part 2 – Clothing collection (40 minutes)

• Everybody shares the information they collected/know about traditional Rohingya clothing first.
• If people came with traditional cloths, it will be worn. If the participants agree, you can take pictures.
  Before taking the picture, think about the background and the pose the participant should have. If the participant does not want to be in the picture, then everybody can draw a mask that the participant will have on his/her face so we can see the cloths nicely but we cannot see who is wearing it. If the participant refuses it too, then no picture will be taken (no judgment nor pressure should be put on the participants).
• Now divide the participants into 2/3 groups and ask them to draw the traditional clothes for both males and females.
• Ask each group to come forward and explain what they have drawn.
• The drawing can be put in the Ideas Box center at the end and some pictures of the drawing should be made to go in the same folder as the real picture.
• Careful: At the end of the session, the facilitator will save all the photos on the laptop, in the same folder (the folder should have the name of the course and the target group), giving a clear title to each picture.

Part 4 – Planning the final event

• For the next workshop, ask if all the participants agree to listen and look at everything that we did together so far. If the participants want, they can invite people (like family or friends or neighbors) to come and see.
• Ask if anyone would like to volunteer to wear the traditional clothes, sing a song, recite a poem, etc.
• The participants, with the help of the facilitator, will prepare an introduction for the event of the last workshop, a speech where they all explain what was the purpose of the course, what is culture, why it is important to collect the information we collected. Who will do which part needs to be assigned so that everyone has enough time to practice their speech
• Careful: the facilitator has to anticipate this event, making sure to invite also the community leader and making sure space will be available.

Conclusion (5 minutes)

• Thank the participants for their involvement and concentration during the session.
• Summarize what was learnt during the session: Today we learnt about different traditional Rohingya clothing for male and female. We also learned about clothing in other countries.
• Collect feedback from the participants and ask questions like: Do you feel that you learnt something during the session? Do you think this new knowledge can be useful to you? Were you comfortable during the session?
• Give the date and location of the next session to the participants, make sure everybody will be available. If not, find a more convenient time and place so everybody can be here.