by AFE-ADB | Mar 5, 2023 | Volunteer
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, teachers, and school officials, including a few bishops and nuns. The Academy, founded by the Maryknoll Sisters, was...
by AFE-ADB | Mar 5, 2023 | Volunteer
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 urban residents, and that this number was expected to balloon to 2.7 billion by 2025. And in 2011, energybulletin.net...
by AFE-ADB | Mar 5, 2023 | Volunteer
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, General Manager of an innovative rural development program up in high mountains— the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme...
by AFE-ADB | Mar 5, 2023 | Volunteer
Raquel Cabiles (ADB 1971–1997) All Eyes on Antipolo. On Monday, 23 April 2012, six AFE–ADB volunteers—Ben Hombre, Midi Diel Kawashima, Aida Lizarondo, Oskee Nunez, Nini Tibay, and I—plus one ADB staff member, Vagie Collanto-Leon, trooped to the Soriano-Leyble Medical...
by AFE-ADB | Mar 5, 2023 | Annual General Meeting, Articles
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, the Annual Meeting will be held in 2 parts. A meeting will be held on 22 May 2020 at ADB HQ, which will be only for Governors through their designated representatives based in Manila. A full-scale Annual...
