Through volunteer work, many members continue to work toward poverty reduction even after leaving ADB. Volunteer opportunities may also be posted here.
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 |
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 and Maternity Hospital in Antipolo for the Yonkers Millennium Lions Club First Philippine Medical Mission.
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 (AKRSP). Later he received the Magsaysay Award and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for the AKRSP. He began the AKRSP in 1982, to improve the quality of life of Pakistan’s most disadvantaged people—the mountain people of the Northern Area, now Gilgit Baltistan.
Jill Gale de Villa
Elvie Punzalan-Estavillo (ADB 1969–1973)
Sawai Boonma (ADB 1975–1978)
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 (England) Lions Club and I had been awarded the Queen’s Award for voluntary service to the community. This is a new award begun in 2002 to mark
Raquel Cabiles (ADB 1971–1997)
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 desire for another change took her to Phoenix, Arizona in late 1996. Wanting to have a flexible schedule so she could spend more time with her son, Nicco, who was nine years old back then, she decided to become a real estate agent.
