ICA Japan - Cote d'lvoire 1999

Youth Vocational Training for the income generation and social independence of Youngsters in Brobo, Bouake Prefecture, Cote dIvoire 1. Second year sewing class. A student is measuring before cutting the cloth.
Project Overview
SCENES OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
	2. Lots of people go shopping at the market.
	3. A scene of the regular market in Brobo on every Tuesday.
	4. A shop at the regular market on Tuesdays selling second hand imported clothes.
	5. A girl pumping up water by step-type pumping machine.
	6. Attieke being made of cassava.
	7. In the insert is a plate of Attieke which at a restaurant costs 100 FCFA, or about 17 yen.
INTRODUCTION TO ICA BROBO and STAFF
	8. A signboard to showing that MPT supports ICA project.
	9. Mr. Faustin, the Director of ICA-Brobo at the left is talking with the project director, Mr. Konan.
	10. A regular meeting held by ICA-Brobo on Fridays. Staff exchange their opinions of all the activities of ICA-Brobo in the meeting. In addition, short meetings are often held.
	11. The staff concerned with the youth vocational training centre, after a meeting.
	12. A whole view of new school building which was constructed in 1998. Sewing for grade 1 and 2,literacy and reproductive health education are taught here. The front is the building for weaving students.
SEWING CLASSES - YEAR 1
	13. New school building where first and second year sewing, literacy education, reproductive health, embroidery and knitting are taught.
	14. Mrs. Olga, a teacher of the first year class of sewing, explaining how to design to students.
	15. Pelagie reproducing teacherﾕs design on a paper.
	16. This student is making her own original design.
	17. Aminata placing her design on craft paper.
	18. Solange sewing craft paper before working on cloth.
	19. First year sewing class. A student reproduces a design of a skirt on blackboard.
	20. A first year student, Yvonne, cutting a cloth.
	21. Ruth is teaching a student how to make a paper pattern of a skirt in the first grade sewing class.
SEWING CLASSES - YEAR 2
	22. Olga is teaching student how to make a paper pattern in the second year sewing class.
	23. Design of African dresses for women, called Boubou, in the second grade sewing class.
	24. Second grade sewing class. Students sewing clothing of their original designs using sewing machines.
SEWING CLASSES - YEAR 3
	25. The third grade sewing students and all the hairdressing students study here.
	26. Third grade sewing class. Michael is teaching students and ICA staff, Daniel, is watching the class.
	27. Third grade sewing students are working on the wedding dresses as a completion of their study.
	28. They have almost compeleted their work and are trung them on.
	29. A design of maxi made by the third year sewing class.
	30. Designs of dresses for girls in the third year sewing class.
	31. Sewing machines for third year sewing class installed thanks to MPT assistance. 15 new sewing machines were purchased this year.
EMBROIDERY and KNITTING
	32. Students kitted these caps in the knitting class. Knitting and embroidery are a part of sewing education and the class is held once a week.
	33. A scene of embroidery in first year sewing class.
TRAINING IN HAIRDRESSING
	34. A first year student exercising with mannequin.
	34. A first year student exercising with mannequin.
	36. A scene of hairdressing training.
	37. Students are learning how to curl the hair by curlers using classmates hair.
	38. Severine is drying her hair after curling.
	39. Severine has just finished hairdressing to her classmate,Estelle.
	40. Students exercising hairdressing using the heads of their classmates.
WEAVING
	41. The building for weaving class constructed in the site of second school building in order to open the class without being influenced by weather.
	42. A second grade student preparing warps.
	43. Weaving teacher, Romain is teaching students how to pass the thread to the repein.
	44. Students learn by actual demonstration.
	45. They need patience to do fine work.
	46. He is preparing the woof by passing thread through comb-like tool called repein.
	47. This student starts weaving with the woof he prepared.
	48.The weaving teacher, Romain, is also weaving with his students.
	49. A scene of weaving class.
	50. A student is weaving. He changes the path of the thread by moving the pedal. He raises the pedal to pass the thread and put it down to stretch the thread. This determines the design of the cloth. The object in his left hand is called navette. Even teachers spend about 10 weeks to weave the complicated pattern.
	51. Navette, a tool for traditional weaving
	52. Alexandre looks satisfied after finishing weaving a cloth. He comes to the centre on foot every day from a village 5km far from Brobo.
LITERACY EDUCATION
	53. Level Zero literacy education is the one for the students who could neither go to nor finish elementary schools. Literacy education has two levels.
	54. Level 1 literacy education. Time calculation and verb conjugation of aller were dealt with in this day. Literacy education is provided so that students can learn the essential vocabulary and math needed to accomplish the vocational training program.
REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH and HYGEINE EDUCATION
	55. A scene of reproductive health education which is taught in discussion to make students participate in the class actively. Health education is also provided to prevent sexually transmitted disease and unwanted early pregnancies, and to promote better living.
	56. A scene of reproductive health education. Students learn the structure of genital organs.
GRADUATESﾕ ACTIVITIES
	57. Student co-ordinator, Vincent. The paper he has is the diploma of youth vocational training centre.
	58. Odette, a graduate from the centre last year, works for the salon which her relative manages now.
	59. Last yearﾕs graduate, Louise was one of the outstanding students at the Center and now she works at a sewing shop in Brobo.
	60. A graduate, Firmin, started his company with other graduates. He is ironing.
	61. Mr. Taguchi, a Japanese coordinator from ICA: Japan and Firman.
	62. Graduates have made a private cooperative. Firmin is the organizer and it currently has seven members.
GRADUATION CEREMONY
	63. Students show the traditional African dance. Graduation ceremony was held on June 30, 2000.
	64. Sewing class students present their original dresses in the fashion show.
	65. Students design not only dresses but accessaries like caps.
	66. Students sewed the wedding dresses as a completion of their study and showed them in the fashion show.
	67. Hairdressing competition. They make complicated hairstyles in a fixed time.
	68. Students dramatize what they have learned in the reproductive health class.They also tell the audience the importance of sanitary education.
	69. Teachers at the center wish good luck for the graduates.