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Perween Rahman (22 January 1957, Dhaka – 13 March 2013, Karachi) was a Pakistani social activist, director of the Orangi Pilot Project Research and Training Institute. She was murdered on 13 March 2013.〔(BBC News - Pakistan mourns murdered aid worker Parveen Rehman )〕 == Biography == Perween Rahman was born in 1957 in Dhaka, then situated in East Pakistan. She moved to Pakistan as a teenager. She obtained a Bachelor of architecture in 1982 at the Dawood College of Engineering and Technology,〔CV as Board member of Saiban, submitted to Homeless International〕 and a postgraduate diploma in housing, building and urban planning in 1986 from the Institute of Housing Studies in Rotterdam. She worked at a private architecture firm before being recruited by Akhter Hameed Khan to become Joint Director of the Orangi Pilot Project in 1983, where she managed the housing and sanitation programmes.〔IIED, Lessons from Karachi 2008 http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/10560IIED.pdf〕 In 1988, OPP was split in four organisations, and Perween Rahman became director of OPP-RTI (Orangi Pilot Project – Research and Training Institute), managing as well programmes in education, youth training, water supply and secure housing.〔 In 1989, she founded the NGO Urban Resource Centre in Karachi〔Arif Hasan, The Urban Resource Centre Karachi http://www.urckarachi.org/URC%20Introduction%20Case%20Study%20by%20Arif%20Hasan.pdf〕 and was also part of the board of Saiban, another NGO dedicated to low-income housing, and OPP-OCT (Orangi Charitable Trust, the microfinance branch of OPP). She was teaching at the University of Karachi, NED University, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and Dawood College of Engineering and Technology.〔(Karachi: Socially Responsible Architect Parveen Rehman RIP )〕 She is the sister of author and teacher Aquila Ismail. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Perween Rahman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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