When NVC Foundation held its annual Christmas party in December 2018, there were quite a number of new faces in the requisite family photo. This is because we also took this opportunity to recognize our best farmer partners, who serve as our lifeline and allow us to serve as we do because they’re part of...
Anton Kilayko passed away in October 2019. Too early, because he was just over 40. But not too early to first make his mark in the hospitality industry and earn a large group of friends and admirers. And not before he could facilitate the donation of a Peter Project boat, along with feeding kids with...
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!
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...
Gary is our happy pill. Gary is a Peter Project fisherman from Punta Taytay, Negros Occidental. After he received his motorized fishing boat two years ago, it has been constant change around him. Just a few months after his boat was turned over, Gary began to add a half concrete extension to his rather dilapidated...
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...
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