With their first 499 kilos of squash delivery, we welcome Victorias Integrated Social Forestry Farmer’s Association (VISFFA), our new team of farmer suppliers from their beautiful farmland on the hills of Victorias, Negros Occidental.
These blue and white fishing boats may not look like the familiar yellow boats of NVC, but they are Peter Project boats nonetheless. A donor who wishes to remain anonymous donated 11 boats to fishermen’s helpers in the coastal community of Punta Taytay, Bacolod City. The boats are all named after the different titles attributed...
Thank you, Sun Life Foundation for helping us bring the sun and life to the children of families who fled their homes due to the violence that ravaged the city of Marawi in Lanao del Sur, Mindanao. Sun Life’s contribution will feed 623 children with daily Mingo Meals for six months, and upgrade a learning center...
130 children in the remote mountain community of Sitio Mapawa, Bukidnon, will start schoolyear 2018 armed with all the supplies they need for school thanks to funds raised by Web In Travel at their 2017 conference in Singapore. The LoveBags were funded through Web in Travel’s annual charity art auction as well as individual donations from...
Domingo Divinagracia is a 32-year old farmer who tills his father’s 2-hectare farm, purchased from savings as an overseas worker. The municipality of Hinigaran, where Domingo lives, also allows him to work on a 4-hectare site in exchange for taking care of the area where garbage is segregated and young trees have been planted. Story...
Reprinted from the Visayan Daily Star. See original article More than 200 volunteers of all sizes and ages gathered to pack 1,500 LoveBags for the Negrense Volunteers for Change at the SM City Bacolod’s Activity Center Saturday. The bags filled with school supplies will be sent to children of indigenous minority communities who walk kilometers...
What a difference a boat makes! From the birth of their first to third sons, Gary and Rhodora lived in a shack that you see under the tree on the right hand side of the photo. In early 2018, the couple received a motorized fishing boat through NVC’s Peter Project. What Gary now earns from his...
Juan Diego Barrientos is an awesome teen whom we’re proud to call an NVC Ambassador. Last summer, he spent a portion of his vacation doing volunteer work with NVC, painting Peter Project boats, visiting a Mingo feeding site, and helping out at the Mingo manufacturing plant. He climbed mountains to reach our farmers who provide...
by Jane Barcenas-Bisuña, Abram’s mom The author works in an international development institution and has published this article in their internal online newsletter. “I learned from Disney that everyone has the power to make a difference. So, I am using my power—my creativity—to help kids of this generation become healthier and stronger.” These were the...
For some children in remote parts of the Philippines, supplies as simple as a pencil or a piece of paper can’t be taken for granted. It’s common for poor schoolchildren to break a pencil into two or three pieces to be shared with others, and to use this until there’s nothing left to write with....
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