Architect Eleena Jamil from Malaysia – 1st Place Winner of the Millennium School Competition 2008

MyShelter Foundation is the same group behind last year’s Millennium Schools project, an international design competition for ecologically sound school buildings in tropical developing countries such as the Philippines. Other organizations involved in the Millennium Schools project are the Philippine Green Building Council, the National Disaster Coordinating Council, the United Architects of the Philippines, the Private Sector Disaster Management Network, Redeye, and the Department of Education The global competition solicited the best architectural designs from around the world, from among which the first prize winner, Eleena Jamil of Malaysia, was selected; the winning design was recently built in Camarines Sur, Philippines.