One year ago, ReyJohn was a hungry, unsmiling boy who couldn’t stop eating Mingo Meals (four in one sitting as you can see). We’re back in ReyJohn’s village of Glab in Zamboanga del Sur with a fresh supply Mingo Meals. We don’t know if it’s to us he gave his biggest grin, or if it...
What happens when a clan celebrates their patriarch’s 91st birthday with a trip on the Mingoy Food Shuttle, and the matriarch, though limited by her medical condition, gathers all her strength and pops in to join the feeding mission? Three generations of the Teng and Nelia Jacinto family made a journey to the countryside yesterday...
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...
A Nepalese doctor pays forward the generosity of Filipino fisherfolk who raised money for those affected by the earthquake in his home country. Dr. Rupesh Man Scherchan was a resident orthopedic surgeon at the Makati Medical Center and is now a fellow of Dr. Ramon Gustilo at the Gustilo Clinic and Ambulatory Surgery Center in...
To celebrate their golden jubilee next year, the Kaisahan Class, Grade School ’66 and High School ’70 of La Salle Bacolod sponsored an NVC community in Sitio Palid Palid of Brgy Cabug, Bacolod. They are sponsoring 40 children in the Mingo Meals nutrition protocol of daily feeding for six months.
NVC celebrated its 9th year anniversary this month. Here’s our report card for the past years. We celebrated our anniversary on a Mingoy Food Shuttle outreach. Special thanks to our volunteers who celebrated this milestone with us! At the simple lunch that followed, our guests of honor were a family of 10: Conrado, Carmelita, and...
We love how Vena Energy not only produces renewable energy but feeds kids so that they will be healthy and full of energy! This is our third year of our partnership with Vena Energy for Negros Occidental and Ormoc. Two years ago, they also began feeding children in Bukidnon. Through the years, so many kids...
We’re going to war, and these are our soldiers. It’s a war against malnutrition and we’re fighting for all of the 650 underweight children aged 6 to 71 months in the municipality of Calatrava, Negros Occidental. NVC’s 10 Million Mingo Meals donors are taking on the enrollment of 400 children, with the balance of 250...
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