TAO-Pilipinas

TAO-Pilipinas is now looking for an administration/accounting assistant. The job application period is from May 16, 2008 to June 15, 2008. Interested applicants should fax their application letter together with their curriculum vitae and 2 recommendation letters from former employers or professor to 926-9504. You can also email the needed documents at info@tao-pilipinas.org or tao_phil@yahoo.com.

For more information about the job requirements and how to apply, please click here

We would like to congratulate one of our staff, Arch. Beryl F. Baybay, for being accepted to Sida’s International Training Programme in Shelter Design and Development. This short course is conducted in Lund, Sweden from April 2-25, 2008 with a regional continuation in Africa on October 2008. Right now, she is in Lund undergoing the 2^nd phase of the training program.

This program is sponsored by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and covers full accommodation and meals, training fees, training materials, and insurance. The aim of the Shelter Design and Development Programme is to give professionals deeper knowledge and a wider frame of reference to help them create long-term conditions to combat poverty through effective capacity and institutional development.

With summer just around the corner, the YP Program of TAO-Pilipinas started accepting applicants for its summer internship program. Six internship positions are available to senior students and new graduates of architecture and interior design, civil and geodetic engineering, and planning. The summer interns will work on TAO projects from April to May 2008.

The internship will focus on community-based technical assistance, fieldwork activities, and housing-related research works. We are looking for YP interns who have strong commitment to social housing and community development issues and a desire to develop their skills and experience. For more information, please click here.

Application requirements include submission of completed application form, resume with 2×2 ID picture and referee report (or referral letter). Interested graduates/ students may download and print the application forms and send to TAO-Pilipinas, 23A Mapagbigay Street, Barangay Pinyahan, Diliman, Quezon City 1100 or email completed forms to yp@tao-pilipinas.org.

A hardcopy of the TAO Shelter Issue No. 3 is now available. The 3rd issue of TAO Shelter focuses on solid waste management. For those interested to buy the printed copy, you can contact our office or email rp@tao-pilipinas.org for more details.

Together with COPE Foundation in Bicol, TAO-Pilipinas conducted the Young Professionals Workshop on Social Housing in Legaspi City last January 21-25, 2008 with the theme, “Building Sustainable Communities in the Resettlement Sites of Albay, Bicol.” About 25 participants joined the five-day workshop whose main objective is to bring together technical professionals, affected communities in Albay, the government and NGOs in one forum to discuss resettlement planning and design issues and needs. It also aimed to revive the Bicol Young Professionals as a volunteer technical assistance group for poor communities.

Workshop participants included graduates and students from Bicol University Department of Architecture and Aquinas University Polytechnic Institute. They were joined by representatives from Bicol Urban Poor Coordinating Council (BUPCC) and community associations in the COPE-sponsored housing areas in Anislag Phase 2 and Taysan resettlement sites.

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