It comes as no surprise. With their combined backgrounds in education, development, and government service, it was an easy choice for Anton and Kathryn Taruc. Instead of sending their wedding guests home with keepsakes, this couple instead gifted 40 students from deprived families of indigenous tribes with LoveBags filled with school supplies. Their love stretched 1,500...
Just in time for Christmas, 110 children from a shoreline barangay in Valladolid, Negros Occidental received LoveBags or LoveFits slippers, all donated, hand packed, and distributed in person by the Ong family of Bacolod and Singapore. Thank you for sharing the LOVE!
FAIRY TALE: Cinderella’s pumpkin turned into a coach. TRUE STORY: Turnips turned into 114 LoveBag backpacks filled with school supplies, and 114 pairs of LoveFits slippers. This is the magic that 80 sixth grade students managed to perform in the village of Richterswil, Switzerlan. For the annual Räbechilbi festival, when the village center turns into a...
In a house on a hill lives Jenny, a mother with three daughters, Donna, Chona, and Cherry. The sisters—aged 7 to 11—love school and have big dreams of being a doctor or teacher one day. Every day, the sisters attend to homework and household chores. The eldest, Donna, helps her mother cook and tend to...
NVC’s young ambassador, Abram Bisuña, gave us quite a big surprise. After he has his parents, Diek and Jane, flew in from Manila to attend the LoveBag packing event on May 7, 2018, he gave us a giant check he drew himself, representing funds collected both from children and adults, enough to provide 120 children...
130 children in the remote mountain community of Sitio Mapawa, Bukidnon, will start schoolyear 2018 armed with all the supplies they need for school thanks to funds raised by Web In Travel at their 2017 conference in Singapore. The LoveBags were funded through Web in Travel’s annual charity art auction as well as individual donations from...
Reprinted from the Visayan Daily Star. See original article More than 200 volunteers of all sizes and ages gathered to pack 1,500 LoveBags for the Negrense Volunteers for Change at the SM City Bacolod’s Activity Center Saturday. The bags filled with school supplies will be sent to children of indigenous minority communities who walk kilometers...
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