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Ho Chi Minh City is the biggest city in Vietnam. In this large southern city, the government of Vietnam built the May 15th School for children troubled by poverty. There are about 200 students at this school, who were unable to attend public schools because they lacks funds for school fees and were mostly unsupervised, with their parents either deceased or imprisoned. Some of these students live at the school where they can cook and sleep. All children of all ages are accepted and they can choose classes depending on their scholastic ability rather than age. There are two kinds of courses: one has the standard curriculum, learning language, math and so on and the other is based on vocational training. Reborn Kyoto is involved with the vocational training. An accredited dressmaking instructor and Reborn Kyoto staff teach students how to make clothing and accessories in training sessions lasting a month, several times a year. At first, the students learn how to dismantle and wash the kimonos. They are then taught basic sewing skills and when they improve, the students learn how to make garments and accessories with sewing machines we provide. Using an incentive system, students receive monetary payments based on the skill demonstrated on completed products. Students with a higher degree of skill get paid more.

Lamha, Lamdong Province is located in the midland of Vietnam, 330 Km northeast (about a 8-hour distance by car) from Ho Chi Minh City. Dangphuong Village is situated in the southeastern part of the area, which has a 1050 m of altitude.
There are 57 families, 300 minority Koho tribe people living in Dangphuong Village. They formerly followed slash-and-burn agriculture, however, they were obliged to practice fixed agriculture by the Vietnamese Government and became to live in this Dangphuong Village.（The Vietnamese Government enforced the fixed agriculture policy in order to prevent slash-and-burn agriculture passing across the border and incidental crimes.）Agriculture is the only way of earning a living for them, and they have no other means of money income. However, income from agriculture is not stable and often insufficient, because is easily influenced by the weather and flood caused by deforestation, especially in lowlands in Lamdong Province.
As for the request of the Koho people, Reborn Kyoto have established sewing training course in Dangphuong Village in cooperation with NICCO(Nippon International Cooperation for Community Development) . There are about 30 Koho women, from teenagers to late twenties, attending our training course. The trainees are instructed by experienced and qualified sewing professionals who are dispatched for a month period, twice a year. Recycled kimonos are used for the training as in the other 2 training areas, and financial