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QC Central Chapter Launches“ Architects for Accessibility”
What better timing to launch the“ Architects for Accessibility”( AFA) advocacy group of the UAP-Quezon City Central chapter than during the kickoff of National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation( NPDR) Week last July 17 at Greenhills, San Juan?
Among the activities participated by QC Central chapter was P. A. R. M. – M. O. V. E. to Fitness, an attempt to make a record of the world’ s largest human accessibility logo. Clad in blue-hooded shirts, Ka-Central architects, together with other participants of various ages, gathered around PWDs who performed white portion of logo in their similarly-designed white hooded shirts. Following the record-making attempt, the Chapter also joined the Walk for Your Rights, as they paraded the AFA Streamer, formally launching the QC Central chapter sub-group.
AFA was co-founded by Dir. Carmen Reyes- Zubiaga of the National Council for Disability Affairs( NCDA) and the UAP QC Central Chapter through the efforts of members, Arch. Erico Abordo, focal person for Accessibility and Arch. Felizardo Cipriano, Jr, project chairman.
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Echoing UAP National President Arch. Guillermo Hisancha’ s strategy of continuity in leadership, AFA is an advocacy of encompassing terms and titles. In a joint project with the NCDA, the Chapter is to donate reprinted copies of BP 344( Accessibility Law) for distribution to different regions of the country. This was made afloat by both parties during the Memorandum of Agreement( MoA) signing held at Bayview Park Hotel Manila on June 22, 2016 under the term of immediate past Chapter President, Arch. Edlee Tusi. The project is being
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continued, implemented and improved in the current Fiscal Year under the leadership of Arch. Joselito Francisco, as the first batch of reprinted handbooks were successfully released on July 23, 2016 at the culmination of NPDR Week.
Unceasingly, the Architects for Accessibility of the UAP-QC Central chapter continue to take steps in its role as responsible architects of the country, through the promotion of the needs of everyone, regardless of abilities – indeed as in Steve Krug’ s words,“ The one argument for accessibility that doesn’ t get made nearly enough is how extraordinarily better it make some people’ s lives. How many opportunities do we have to dramatically improve people’ s lives by just doing our job a little better?”
Indeed, UAP Tandang Sora Chapter started loud as the members flocked in the first GMM of the fiscal year last July 21 at Dencio’ s Bar and Grille Function Room, Tomas Morato corner Scout Borromeo, Quezon City.
The event speaker, Arch. Alex Ray Evangelista, a member of Tandang Sora Chapter, shared His knowledge and passion in acoustic architecture: both in theory and in practice. Everybody was reminded of the basics of acoustics and how to compute for the correct reverberation time
Within a room. In this GMM, the members were also able to pay their dues.
Trend Specialist, Inc., the major event sponsor, also shared to the chapter their product line and innovations: Anderson Doors and Windows, Bona and Woca Wood Floor Care and Application, Rocky Mountain Hardware.
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