According to the manager of COSTI, Centre for Italian Scholastic and Technical Organizations located in Toronto, elementary school students uniforms are white shirts and green\blue pants for boys and white blouses and green\blue skirts for girls. For intermediate school students, the uniforms consist of yellow shirts and khaki pants for the boys and yellow blouses and khaki skirts for the girls. Secondary school students wear white shirts and blouses and khaki pants and skirts. [
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As stated by the manager of COSTI in Toronto during a telephone interview with the IRBDC on 10 May 1990.]

The ex-Acting Director General for Higher Education in Somalia presently residing in Ottawa, corroborates the above information, stating that elementary school uniforms consist of white shirts and blouses and blue skirts and pants. He also reports that intermediate and secondary school female students may wear pants or skirts. [ As stated by the ex-Acting Director General for Higher Education in Somalia, presently residing in Ottawa, during a telephone interview with the IRBDC on 10 May 1990.]

The president of the North Somali Association of Quebec reports that elementary school student uniforms consist of white shirts and blue pants for boys and white blouses and blue skirts for girls. He corroborates with the above sources regarding intermediate school uniforms but states that secondary school students do not have any uniforms. [ As stated by the president of the North Somali Association of Quebec during a telephone interview with the IRBDC on 10 May 1990.]

The Information Officer at the Somali Embassy in Ottawa corroborates the information presented by the manager of COSTI, but states that elementary school uniforms are white and green. [ As stated by a Somali Embassy Official in Ottawa during a telephone interview with the IRBDC on 10 May 1990.]

The manager of COSTI further states that some female secondary school students wear long white dresses.

Corroborating information from published sources regarding the above topic is currently unavailable to the IRBDC.