Ulrich Zachau's Field Trip to Adana to visit
World Bank-financed projects Over 40 small high technology enterprises established in Adana - paving the way for high value-added businesses in Turkey  | Cahit Kıraç, Governor of Adana & Ulrich Zachau |
Adana is an ancient city tracing its roots back to 3,000 BC. with many cultures having left their imprint. Today Adana is a bustling commercial city with over 1.4 million people. The city and province of Adana have been very active in implementing activities supported by the World Bank. During a recent visit, the new World Bank Country Director for Turkey, Ulrich Zachau, observed the following positive results achieved through World Bank support to ISKUR, KOSGEB, MEB, SYDGM, kaymakamliks, municipalities and NGOs: - high technology small business incubator , focusing on nurturing high technology enterprises based upon information technology and its application to a global economy, but based in Adana. 32 enterprises are currently active, and 9 have already graduated within the 2 year life-span of the incubator. Although 8 other small business incubators have been established in Turkey, only in Adana has a high technology small business incubator been established - with applications ranging from global positioning satellite technology, computer software design through to the application of laser technology for health-care;
 | Ulrich Zachau with Youth Assembly Members, Yüreğir/Adana - SMRP |
- on-the-job training for unemployed youth to help them secure permanent jobs in the modern sector in rapidly growing bus manufacturing and industrial plastic textiles sectors - all the young men concerned have expressed their delight at receiving solid training and being placed in a permanent job;
social integration of disadvantaged youth, through educational and social development programs implemented by an effective local NGO - the youth from poor outlying districts of Adana have noted how art and theatre have increased their self-esteem and given them the opportunity to become networked into modern Adana;
  | Ulrich Zachau & Ülkü Özen,Yüreğir/Adana
SRMP-Income Generation Project |
| My Beautiful School
SRMP |
| - Â assistance to poor entrepreneurs, through start up capital and training for new small businesses in areas such as textiles for local cultural events - one recent female beneficiary experienced the restoration of her marriage as her new business has taken off generating employment for another 5 women; and
education for disadvantaged children, through improvements to facilities, access to information technology, and support to poor mothers to keep their children in school amongst poor migrant communities in Adana - the children concerned expressed their love of education and hopes to gain high-level employment in fields as diverse as law, medicine, teaching and the police.
|  | John Innes-WB & A Student in İsmail Sefa Özder Primary School, Yüreğir/Adana
Basic Education Project 2 |
 | Ulrich Zachau in the classroom, Yüreğir/Adana
My Beautiful School Project - SRMP |
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