A new partnership with maritime healthcare company Halcyon Marine Healthcare Systems and Project Liwanag, a nonprofit that serves indigenous Aetas in Northern Luzon, has enabled the feeding of 37 Aeta children with daily Mingo Meals for one year. Mingo Meals landed in Capas, Tarlac on October 23, 2017 after a 45-minute ride on a four-wheel-drive...
On the day that Philippine government announced the end of combat operations in Marawi, we received support to help us bring fresh hope to those whose lives were affected by the siege and will soon return to their battle-ridden hometown. Today, students of Bacolod Tay Tung High School turned over to NVC Foundation P100,000, which...
NVC Foundation requires raw ingredients for its projected production of Mingo Meals, as well as meal packs for its partner, Rise Against Hunger Philippines. 1. Green mongo – 3 tons 2. Pure powdered cacao – 1 ton 3. Squash – 20 tons 4. Alogbate – 1 ton 5. Camote tops – 500 kgs 6. Saba bananas...
Cooks! Give your dishes a surprising twist of sour from the fruit called BATWAN, and help others with your purchase Batwan (or batuan) is a Filipino fruit and one of the earliest known souring ingredients of Filipino cuisine. Abundant in the islands of Negros and Panay, it’s the secret ingredient in many popular Ilonggo dishes—like...
Merly Oboso (above, center) worked with a family in Bacolod for 29 years. The children she cared for, Sam (left) and Philip (right), are now adults. Sam, 24, is a Kumon assistant teacher for preschool and early elementary students while Philip, 27, is a medical doctor. After Yaya Merly saw him receive his diploma and...
This 2017, NVC’s Artisans of Hope products will be available at the following Manila bazaars. We’ll be unveiling beautiful new products and designs, all handmade by our artisans, that we’re very excited to share with you. As always, the artisans who make the products directly benefit from each piece acquired, and all proceeds are funneled...
NVC, which makes our own fiberglass Peter Project boats, was tapped by the Banca ng Buhay project to produce 38 fiberglass bancas to bring Filipino students in remote locations to school daily. The 38 boats ferry for free around 300 public school students in six barangays of Catbalogan City, Samar, to and from Antonio G. Tuazon National High...
Mingo first found its way to Leyte to help feed the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan. On July 6, another disaster hit Leyte. Though smaller in scale, it still affected thousands of people: a 6.5 magnitude earthquake and over 700 aftershocks in the span of a week caused the hard hit city of Ormoc and the...
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