After an incredibly busy and productive year, NVC hosted a day of thanks for donors, partners, volunteers, and friends on September 26 at the Negros Trade Fair. NVC Day opened with the kickoff of the Start Right, Live Bright Nutrition Program for Rep. Leni Gerona Robredo’s District in Camarines Sur. We endorsed 27,000 Mingo...
On August 12, 2014, 3,852 children gained a headstart towards a better future today. In 45 schools in Negros island and Bicol, these kinder children simultaneously started a supplemental feeding program using Mingo Meals, an instant mix of rice, mongo and moringa (malunggay). The feeding program is managed by AGAPP Foundation and funded by the Asian Development Bank through...
On every given day, there are about 2,000 kids somewhere in the Philippines taking a serving of Mingo, the nutritious complementary instant food made rice, mongo and malunggay produced by NVC. But this certainly is not enough, Among the basic sectors, children accounted for the largest number of the country’s poor population according to...
The Asian Development Bank-AGAPP initiative to provide Mingo Meals to over 3,000 kinder-level kids in Negros island and Bicol kicked off today with an orientation dry run in one school. AGAPP and ADB representatives from Manila, and a ground partner from Bicol, joined NVC volunteers from Bacolod and Hinigaran for this event. See later post: Over 3,000 children enrolled...
NVC celebrates Nutrition Month this July by reporting that 2,921 children in Typhoon Yolanda-hit areas are enrolled in an ongoing Start Right, Live Bright Nutrition Program using Mingo Meals as primary source of good nutrition! Many thanks to our donors, partners, volunteers and field officers who have tirelessly kept this program rolling!
Mingo enters Biliran province in Eastern Visayas through our partners–JDR Mission Partners, Inc. and Victor A. del Rosario. Biliran is one of the smallest provinces in the Philippines and was also hit hard by supertyphoon Yolanda. Victor posted on his Facebook wall: “Thank you and God bless Negrense Volunteers for Change/Millie Kilayko thru Alyne Batano...
Thank you, Chef Tony Boy Escalante, for the contribution of Antonio’s Group of Restaurants to NVC’s Start Right, Live Bright Nutrition Program that provides Mingo Meals to undernourished children. Because of your generosity, 200 infants and toddlers will be enrolled in the program, with access to a 6-month daily feeding regimen on Mingo, our instant...
The I CAN Team invited NVC to join Gawad Kalinga’s Bayani Challenge, which found us in Barangay Tulungatung, Zamboanga City for an afternoon of Mingo and fun with almost 500 kids from families affected by Zamboanga’s September 2013 peace and order crisis. What a great experience sharing Mingo Love with these children. Thank you to all our Mingo donors!
UHA! Mingo reaches the children and youth of Ungkaya Pukan, Basilan Province. Ungkaya Pukan is a new municipality, separated from its mother town of Tipo-Tipo in 2006 under the Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 190 and ratified by plebiscite. It is a conflict-affected area frequently facing peace and order issues. In 2007, an armed encounter between...
Here is an accounting of donations received and disbursed by NVC as of December 30, 2013 for the victims of Typhoon Yolanda. Click on the image to view a larger version.
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