Volunteering
ADB’s staff Community Fund has numerous ongoing projects and welcomes retirees to help monitor and serve the beneficiaries.
The Indonesia chapter has ongoing charity work run by chapter members.
Members Volunteer Work, in AFE−ADB News
| Description | Member(s) | Issue | Page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anticorruption, grassroots action | Geert van der Linden | 45, Sept 2014 | 40−42 |
| Cities Development Initiative for Asia | Hans Springer has chairs this effort | 40, March 2012 | 29−30 |
| Community Service; assisting Displaced Aetas | Wallum, Peter and Jenny | 38, March 2011 | 41−42 |
| Earthquake Relief | Simon Baily-Gibson | 44, March 2014 | 15−16 |
| Ecotourism Training and Support | Yves Bellekes | 38, March 2011 | 42 |
| Education Assistance, Indonesia | Indonesia Chapter | 38, March 2011 | 30 |
| 40, March 2012 | 17 | ||
| Education Assistance, Thailand | Sawai Boonma, Banna Reading Promotion Foundation | 40, March 2012 | 34−35 |
| Education Assistance, Philippines, Aetas | Raquel Cabiles, Jenny Wallum | 38, March 2011 | 42 |
| Flood Relief (Ondoy) | Parker and de Armas | 36, March 2010 | 27−33 |
| Medical Missions | Ethel Luzario | 34, May 2009 | 29 |
| 43, Sept 2013 | 36−37 | ||
| Medical Outreach | Ethel Luzario and AFE Philippine Chapter members | 36, March 2010 | 34 |
| Medical Outreach: Vision Care | Ethel Luzario and AFE Philippine Chapter members | 38, March 2011 | 43−4 |
| Medical Outreach | Raquel Cabiles | 41, Sept 2012 | 41−42 |
| Medical Outreach—Prosthetics | VR Mehta | 38, March 2011 | 47 |
| 43, Sept 2013 | 25−27 | ||
| Services for the Poor | Eustace Nonis | 44, March 2014 | 29 |
| Toxic Waste Removal | Sandilya, Karti, the Blacksmith group | 36, March 2010 | 35−36 |
| Typhon Relief (Yolanda) | Tsukasa Maekawa | 44, March 2014 | 19 |
| Typhon Relief (Yolanda) | Graham Walter | 44, March 2014 | 16−19 |
International Outreach By Ethel Luzario
Ethel Luzario left ADB in 1981 and joined the United Nations Development Programme as an HR Specialist. After spending 15 years in New York her...
The Kawit Medical Mission with Ethel Luzario
Raquel Cabiles (ADB 1971–1997) Sunday, 30 January. Ex-ADBer Ethel Luzario and the Phoenix, Arizona Lions’ Club held a medical mission to Kawit,...
Lion at Large
Peter Wallum (ADB 1982–2009) I have been a “roving” Lion for 30 years. Imagine my delight when I learned that my fellow members of the Morpeth...
Sixth Annual Reading Competition in Banna
Sawai Boonma (ADB 1975–1978) On 11–12 November 2011, thirty-three elementary schools in Banna District, Nakhon Nayok Province, Thailand, staged...
Sharing Laughter at St. James Academy
Elvie Punzalan-Estavillo (ADB 1969–1973) When I arrived at St. James Academy in Malabon on 21 October 2011, it was already full with 370 students,...
Developing Cities: Hans-On
Jill Gale de Villa The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), in its State of the World Population 1996, noted that Asia then had about 1.2 billion...
Letter from the Roof of the World
Shahida Jaffrey Up to the Roof. 21 years ago, on 8 December 1989, I was on the Aga Khan Foundation Helicopter accompanying Shoaib Sultan Khan,...
The Eyes and the Aetas
Raquel Cabiles (ADB 1971–1997) All Eyes on Antipolo. On Monday, 23 April 2012, six AFE–ADB volunteers—Ben Hombre, Midi Diel Kawashima, Aida...