On June 19, 2017, 200 children in Brgy. Tinampaan, Cadiz, Negros Island were enrolled in the Equis Zero Hunger program, of which NVC is a part. 200 Cadiz children to be fed for a year A hundred infants and toddlers will be given daily Mingo Meals for one year, while another hundred school-age children will be fed with rice...
NVC’s beloved Mingo turns 6 years old on July 8, 2017, and most fittingly, we are also manufacturing our 6 millionth Mingo Meal on this very day. Yes, that’s 6,000,000 packets of nutrition supplements to strengthen young bodies and minds since 2011. New foil packaging To mark the occasion, we’re giving this kid a new...
We’ve been sharing stories about friends across the Philippines who have been fundraising for NVC’s Mingo for Marawi drive. In another part of the world, an ortho-physical therapist has been spending her off hours patiently stirring her homemade ube halaya on top of a stove, with the Mingo for Marawi drive in mind as well. Bing Sancho Junio...
Almost three years ago, NVC played a supporting role in a project funded by the Asian Development Bank and spearheaded by AGAPP Foundation. NVC implemented a 200-day feeding program using Mingo Meals in 45 preschools around Negros Island and Bicol. It was part of a much larger project designed to enhance access to quality early childhood education...
When we delivered 1,423 LoveBags to our two target indigenous peoples’ villages as classes commenced in June, we thought the drive was over. At least for this school year. But donations continued to come in, and so we set off to identify a new set of kids. Today, we handed over 51 LoveBags with a...
Dianna Jean Callejo Cruz is an NVC volunteer and champion Mingo advocate who so lovingly and valiantly brings Mingo where and when it is most difficult to do so. For two weekends now, she has spent what would have been quality time with her daughter in the midst of those who fled the war in Marawi. Here is...
As soon as NVC embarked on the Mingo for Marawi drive, there was one lady who set herself on a relentless begging mission to harness funds, big and small for the Marawi children we need to feed with Mingo Meals. And how well Pia Camus did her job! She started by bringing cans to a meeting in...
For NVC, Dianna Jean Callejo Cruz is the commander-in-chief of the Mingo Army that would go to children in the heart of disasters. She brought Mingo to Bohol after the earthquake and to Leyte after Typhoon Yolanda. Now, she leads the Mingo Army to the shelters for Marawi evacuees. This is Part 1 of the Mingo for...
Last March 2017, NVC kicked off the construction of a preschool building and playground for children of the indigenous people in Sitio Bugtong Lubi, Hinobaan, Negros Island. Sitio Bugtong Lubi is a mountain community that is extremely marginalized due to its remote location. Below is the old school that children in the community attended. The two-classroom building...
The arithmetic of love is 8+1=1,000 8 In 2014, NVC Foundation’s Project Joseph endorsed tricycles to eight men in Hinigaran, Negros Island to help them support their families. +1 Two years later, these eight men paid forward. From their collective savings, they bought a tricycle and gave it another person in their community so that another family could have...
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