TAO-Pilipinas

We would like to congratulate one of our staff, Engr. Rosalyn-Frances Marcelo, for having passed the recently concluded Environmental Planner Licensure Exam. We are also pleased to announce that she also placed 3rd among the 26 examinees who passed the board exam. Engr. Rosalyn-Frances Marcelo is our program staff for the Young Professionals Program and our resident geodetic engineer.

To see the results of the June 2008 Environmental Planner Licensure Exam, please click here

TAO-Pilipinas is raising funds for the construction of a public toilet for an urban poor community in Tanza, Navotas. Majority of the 140 families living in a flood prone relocation site cannot afford to build their own toilets, and resort to disposing of waste through the “wrap and throw” method (wrapping it in plastic and burying or throwing it away somewhere else). TAO-Pilipinas has partnered with the More Than Me foundation to raise funds. If you want to know more about the project and are interested to help, you can download the following:

Potty Project Flyer

Potty Project - Project Brief

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To all our partner networks and communities, we would like to inform you that we have moved to a new office which is located at 27-A Matiyaga St. Brgy. Central, Diliman, Quezon City 1100. We also have a new PLDT phone number which is (63-2) 441-0998. This number is also the one we use for our fax machine.

To everyone who has helped us, thank you very much for your continued support.

TAO-Pilipinas is pleased to inform you that we are about to launch the YP Design Challenge, a design ideas competition for young professionals and students that aims to generate ideas and design solutions for sustainable community development in urban poor settlements.

The YP Design Challenge is comprised of three design challenges, working around themes of sustainable community development. Each category has its own set of competition guidelines, judging criteria and prizes. Participants may choose to join in any or all of the following design challenge categories:

Design Challenge 1: Sustainable Shelter
Design Challenge 2: Trash Transformation
Design Challenge 3: Portable Playground

For our partners in the academe, we’re encouraging architecture/id, planning and engineering schools in Metro Manila to consider the design challenges in this competition as student design plate/project requirements for a semester. We see this competition as a vehicle for the students to directly deal with sustainability issues in their academic design assignments and offers design educators an opportunity to orient and guide the students on important ideas on sustainability in their design studios.

We’d like to invite you to the YP Design Challenge Launch on June 06, 2008 (Friday) at ISO-Ateneo (1:30pm). During the launch we shall be introducing the competition rules and guidelines as well as its website, www.ypdesignchallenge.tao-pilipinas.org. (This website can already be accessed for more information about the competition.)

We hope to see you at the project launch. Thank you very much for your continued support.

TAO-Pilipinas forged cooperation with SEGi College in Malaysia and the University of the Philippines College of Architecture in a Memorandum of Participation in the Community of Practices towards Capabilities-Building of Communities for Disaster Risk Reduction.

The ceremony held in Taipei capped the end of the International Training Workshop on Typhoon and Flood Disaster Reduction 2008 attended by representatives from 9 countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Thailand, The Philippines, the United States of America and Vietnam. Continue Reading »