JJ turned 11 on August 8. He wanted to spread some good vibes on his special day. So our cheerful team of four young ladies packed 11 LoveBags for children in Marawi as a gift from the birthday boy! Thank you to our volunteer packers and thank you to the birthday boy! Happy birthday JJ...
It’s customary to give out bags of goodies to your guests after a birthday party. There was no party for Jim’s 43rd birthday but he did give out goody bags. Jim and his wife donated 43 LoveBags full of school supplies and hygiene kits to 43 kids in Marawi. We asked a group of cousins...
Last week, a donor asked us to give 71 LoveBags to celebrate a relative’s 71st birthday. This week, 17 more LoveBags are on their way to children in GIDACS (geographically isolated disadvantaged areas in conflict situation) in Mindanao. A young dancer will be turning 17 this month. To celebrate this milestone, she and her mother are...
A donor contacted us soon after we announced that the LoveBags project was up and running again. This donor’s birthday is July 17th. However, the donor wanted LoveBags as a gift for someone else. The donor’s relative–Chit Cacho–was also born on July 17th. Chit may have passed away but his family commemorated his life with...
In 2020, a record number of families were starving as thousands of breadwinners lost their source of income. As a result, NVC choose to focus on the urgent need of feeding those who were hungry. Because of that and because many schools were shut down, we put our LoveBags project on hold. However, we are...
Our dear NVC volunteer Mary Anne “Leggs” Yulo Riego left us too soon. She passed away in early 2020 at the age of 59. In lieu of flowers at her wake, family and friends donated to projects of NVC, the foundation which she had volunteered for countless times in her lifetime. In February of 2020,...
Two lovebirds from Sydney. One wedding in Spain. Ten happy schoolchildren in the Philippines. When Australia-based Den and Xavi got married in beautiful Barcelona, 10 poor schoolchildren in Calatrava, Negros Occidental were each given LoveBags filled with a year’s worth of school supplies and a pair of flipflops. This was the way the couple chose...
When Trish Golez celebrated her 60th birthday, she requested LoveBags for needy schoolchildren instead of presents for herself. Her family and friends all together contributed 126 LoveBags, to which she added 80 more as her own thanksgiving for her milestone year.
What does one of the Philippines’ top 100 lawyers (declared by Asian Business Law Journal 2019) do in her spare time? She goes with her teenage son to take a one-hour habal-habal ride and they walk another two hours up a mountain path where experienced motorcyclists dare not tread, to one of their home province’s...
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