We recently kicked off the Mingo Meals feeding program for 350 more children. These children hail from Barangay Monte Dujali, San Isidro, Davao del Norte. As Covid protocols are still in place, most of the children stayed home. Only those whose mothers had no one else to tend to them came to the orientation. Because...
Mingo Champorado You can improve the nutritional value of a dish by adding Mingo to it and one example is Mingo champorado. This delicious chocolate rice porridge is packed with nutrition and flavor. It’s an NVC house specialty and we would often serve it from the kitchen of Mingoy our Food Shuttle. Because of word...
Tucked away in the mountains of Kapalong, Davao del Norte lies Sitio Bagtok. It’s so remote that the authorities only recently discovered people were living in the area. NVC will support the nutritional needs of the village’s 118 children for the next six months. Thank you once again to Balsam Brands for sponsoring these children!...
120 children from Sitio Kampina, Kapalong, Davao del Norte were recently enrolled in the Mingo Meals Feeding Program. They will receive a Mingo Meal once a day for the next six months in addition to their regular meals. On the first day of the program, we weighed and measured the children. We will monitor their...
143 kids in Zambales are now in the final leg of the Mingo Meals nutrition program in partnership with the Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation. We can’t wait to see these kids graduate to a better nutritional status! Families picked up the last set of Mingo Meals for home feeding. Safety restrictions are still in...
Bugtaw Brew specializes in ready to drink cold brew coffee. Since they are in the business of waking people up, it’s no surprise that the entrepreneurs behind the brand are very woke. To help combat hunger in the country, these purveyors of breakfast specialties have added limited edition Bugtaw Brew for NVC tees to their...
After rats consumed their crops, the people of Sitio Banualay had very little to eat. They had a few bunches of bananas, some coconuts, and the fish they could catch in the river. Our team recently visited this small village tucked away in the mountains of Kapalong, Davao del Norte. They delivered the first batch...
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,...
The Birth of the Bun (2013) Nine years ago, NVC Envoy of Hope Mariel Tolentino wanted to come up with creative ways of using Mingo. She approached Carla Lim and asked her to create a special bun that would make use of Mingo. Carla was happy to oblige. As the owner of the popular Sunny...
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