UAP partners with Red Cross

The Philippine Red Cross is a humanitarian organization, which provides
services to uplift the lives of the underprivileged. One of its basic services is the Blood Services, which works on providing the country with adequate and safe blood supply from volunteer, non-remunerated blood donors.

The PRC operates a network of blood service facilities nationwide, their
capabilities to provide manpower and logistics support to the UAP, necessary for mass blood donation activities as well as issuing blood to architects in need, is dependent on the support to its blood service program The UAP, which operates and maintains regional chapters nationwide, will provide the necessary support by being the source of blood donors, through regular mass blood donation activity among its members and networks, that will complement its needs and requirements for the purpose of ready availability of blood, regardless of blood type, for every individual architect at anytime and anywhere.

On this precept, the PRC and the UAP agreed to conduct annual mass blood
donation (MBD) every year starting on March 26, 2011. The MBD project shall be called ‘DUGO AT SERBISYO, UMAAGAPAY ANG ARKITEKTONG PILIPINO”’.

Mechanics:
1. The PRC represented by each PRC Blood Center in coordination with UAP,
to be represented by designated chapter officers from its 128 chapters
nationwide; shall jointly plan, prepare, and conduct a nationwide
simultaneous Mass blood donation activity in each of the City or
municipalities where a PRC Blood Center is located. Each Blood center will
be matched with the nearest UAP chapter/chapters or district in the vicinity.
2. The PRC and UAP shall undertake the promotion and dissemination of
information to generate support and participation among its members,
families, employees, industry partners, and friends, as well as walk in donors for each blood donation activity organized under the MOA.

ALL CHAPTER PRESIDENTS
ALL DISTRICT DIRECTORS
Regional Districts B1, B2, A3, A4 and A5

An Invitation to Participate in the Nationwide Mass Blood Donating
Activity of UAP and the Philippine Red Cross on UAP Foundation Day – Saturday, March 26, 2011

1. Pursuant to Memorandum Circular No. 35 re: Nationwide Conduct of DUGO
AT SERBISYO:UMAAGAPAY ANG ARKITEKTONG PILIPINO - A Nationwide Mass Blood Donating Activity of UAP and the Philippine Red Cross on UAP Foundation Day - March 26, 2011, the Office of the National President is encouraging all Chapter Officers and Members of Regional Districts B1, B2, A3, A4 and A5 to participate in this activity.

2. Further, we would like also to encourage your family, your architectural firm’s staff, employees and construction personnel, if any to participate in this Mass Blood Donating Activity, including Blood Typing and Data Banking.

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ECOLODGE PLANNING AND DESIGN WORKSHOP with HITESH MEHTA

The International School of Sustainable Tourism (ISST), through its President former Tourism Secretary Mina Gabor, wish to invite planners, architects, environmentalists, developers, investors, government agencies, tourism operators, landscape architects, interior designers, engineers, academicians and those with great interest in eco-tourism in the "ECOLODGE PLANNING AND DESIGN WORKSHOP with HITESH MEHTA" on March 24 – 28, 2011 (5 days) at ISST Campus in Subic Bay Metropolitan Area.

Hitesh Mehta is an award winning Florida-based Kenyan architect. Mr. Mehta is one of the leading voices in the emerging practice on eco-tourism and eco-lodge design. His portfolio of work in this field with indigenous communities can be found in nearly twenty countries/territories around the world. His influence and inspiration is recognized widely. In 2005, he was named one of the “25 Most Powerful People in Adventure” by Men’s Journal magazine. In 2006, the National Geographic magazine named Mr. Mehta as one of the top Tourism Pioneers. With 22 years of experience, Mr. Mehta has consulted in over 55 countries in six continents and was the Team Leader and Project Manager for the multi-award winning Crosswaters Ecolodge and Spa, China. Mr. Mehta regularly conducts research on international trends in Ecolodges and his third book - Authentic Ecolodges was published by Harper Collins in November 2010. To research the book, Hitesh, visited 44 lodges in 46 countries on 6 continents. The 36 lodges in the book are from $15 a night to over $500 a night and this book is an awesome resource (the first table-book of its kind) for investors, developers, architects, landscape architects, planners and interior designers.

Hitesh Mehta has conducted Ecolodge workshops all over the world: St. John Island, Caribbean; Rwanda, Kenya, Canada, Sikkim- India, Manila and USA. You could check his website at http://h-m-design.com/

This is a very rare and cost-effective opportunity for concerned Filipino professionals and firms to take advantage of the great learning from Mr. Mehta. The workshop is sponsored by the Department of Tourism. Attached is the promotional brochure with course outline.

For reservations and other details please contact the ISST Manila Office at 832-0996 and 834-2994 (email: minagabor2010@gmail.com), look for Ms. Ava Alcantara and Fatima Inog. The course fee is PhP20,000 inclusive of 1 lunch and 2 snacks, and course materials. This is on a "first come first served basis" in view of the limited class size requested by Mr. Mehta.

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