Meet the boy who launched a thousand (and more) pencils. 7,115 to be exact. Carl Gonzales’ photo stabbed our hearts late last year: the sight of a little boy who had to make do with a tiny pencil stub because his parents could only afford to buy one to break up to share among Carl and his...
As of June 20, 2017, all 1,423 donated LoveBags for School Kids have been delivered to children living in the mountains of Bukidnon, Mindanao and Himamaylan, Negros Island who have very limited access to school supplies. NVC identified 852 recipients from the indigenous Tala-andig tribe in Bukidnon, Mindanao, and 571 recipients from the Maghat, Bukidnon, and Ituman tribes located...
Students from Xavier University (Ateneo de Cagayan) have been going door to door to distribute Mingo Meals that have been donated by NVC donors. With too few and under-resourced evacuation centers able to take care of the displaced, majority of them have actually been staying with relatives and friends in nearby cities and municipalities. In Cagayan de Oro, relief...
On June 9, 2017, a retired teacher who wishes to remain anonymous deposited Php 135,180.60 to send 23,307 Mingo Meals to Marawi evacuees in Mindanao. Only three days earlier, she began a Facebook fundraising campaign to raise awareness about the increasing number of refugees, many of them children, in evacuation centers housing those who had...
Help us send Mingo Meals to Marawi evacuees To assist displaced fellow Filipinos from war-torn Marawi City in Mindanao, NVC has been sending Mingo Meals to our ground partners in Mindanao to help feed the many evacuees who are unable to return home. Mingo for Marawi photo gallery ” order_by=”imagedate” order_direction=”DESC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] How you can help Each Mingo Meal...
NVC is looking for volunteers in the Bacolod City area on May 13 to help us pack 1,000 Love Bags for schoolchildren who need them! What are Love Bags? 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. They...
For those who are looking for a meaningful, unique, and special Mother’s Day gift, NVC’s has designed a Love Card especially for the lady in your life who you taught you the meaning of love. The purchase of a Love Card contributes to NVC’s Love Bags project, which provides poor children in remote mountain areas of...
NVC began its newest project, Love Bags for School Kids, on February 14, 2017 in response to learning that many students in remote mountain schools in the Philippines lack school supplies and school bags. Since the launch just over 2 months ago, donations have poured in, allowing us to complete our target of providing a...
While NVC runs its own Mingo Meals nutrition program, Mingo is also used by other foundations and groups for their own feeding activities because of Mingo’s convenience, low cost, and effectiveness. Recently, we received a donation of Php 25,000 with instructions to send 5,000 sachets of Mingo Choco to Rise Above Foundation Cebu. The group is using the donation to...
Update: This project was completed in June 2017 and has been turned over! Read the article. Thanks to the contribution of one donor, NVC in March 2017 began construction of a preschool building, while also pooling together additional contributions to build a playground for children of the indigenous people in Sitio Bugtong Lubi, Hinobaan, Negros Island. Sitio...
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