Where there are hungry children in the Philippines, there’s no mountain high enough, no valley low enough, no river wide enough to keep Mingo from getting to empty stomachs to nourish and sustain. But beginning February 17, 2019, NVC can do its job a lot faster with the inauguration of its food shuttle, Mingoy. It’s...
While we were sleeping, a generous donation for Mingo Meals came in, immediately followed by another set of donations for LoveBags and LoveFits slippers. To celebrate Eilidh’s first birthday, her parents requested donations for these NVC projects instead of presents. We think that it’s not just a charming way to celebrate. It also gives little...
If you gave or received a card like this one, know NVC has started–with proceeds from the sales–to enroll 40 children in NVC’s Mingo Meals nutrition program that will provide them with daily access to this instant meal made of rice, mongo and malunggay for six months. The children come from an impoverished shoreline village...
Tradition calls for the bride and groom to gift their wedding sponsors with a keepsake, but Chicco and Ada are not doing this on their wedding day, December 8, 2018. Instead, for every godparent, they have enrolled one child in NVC Foundation’s Mingo Meals nutrition program. This unconventional choice will fill 22 hungry little stomachs...
Meet Enzo, a 15-year-old painter whose bold, colorful work has appeared in various exhibits in Manila. His parents, Dean and Chu Calleja, have generously allowed NVC to reproduce four of his paintings in gift cards, sales of which will fund Mingo Meals for malnourished children all over the Philippines. Enzo is a teen living with...
Mingo Meals for 43 children of the indgenous Filipino T’boli tribe are now on their way to this small barangay of just about a thousand people. Called Batian, it is the T’Boli term for junction of the big river. Here the tribe plays an important role: they host the nesting territory of the critically endangered...
Meet Walter Ramos, a Mingo hero. Literally through land, sea and air, Walter has been bringing Mingo Meals and toys to undernourished children in Bunuangin Elementary School in Port Barton, Palawan for two years now. Manila-based, he uses personal and friends’ resources to help his cause, starting with 69 children, of which 29 were malnourished,...
In May 2018, Maite Hontiveros Dittke, owner of Maite’s Asian Cuisine in Düsseldorf, Germany, participated in her city’s Japan Day by selling her famous kamameshi rice. She committed part of the sales towards Mingo. And that is the way it goes with NVC’s donors… From all over the world, we receive help towards feeding more kids,...
Reprinted from The Visayan Daily Star By Carla P. Gomez The Negrense Volunteers for Change Foundation was one of the recipients of the 1st Kabalikat Achievement Award from the Department of Science and Technology at the Dusit Thani Manila Hotel in Makati City, yesterday [July 27, 2018]. The award, that was accompanied by a P200,000...
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