What better way to celebrate your 29th wedding anniversary than to share the love in your hearts with those who need it most? On their special day, Tony and Rosemarie Villareal coordinated the trip of 29 Filipino-Canadian doctors who turned over 60 boats in Leyte this week. Happy anniversary, Tony and Rosemarie!
Meet Jerry and Edita Sorbito of Calubian, Northern Leyte, in the place they call home. The makeshift structure is so fragile that it has to be tied to mangrove trees to ensure it doesn’t drift away. Their eldest daughter, Marinel, is 15 years old but only in Grade 3. Poverty prevents her and three...
NVC has a new logo! The logo’s shades of green represent the leaves of malunggay (moringa), which has differentiated NVC’s Mingo from other similar nutritional food/porridge in the market. The leaves form the wings of a butterfly that can bring us to new heights. Truly, this logo represents NVC today. The logo was...
In January 2015, the fiberglass plant we turned over to Sagay, Negros Occidental, produced its first batch of Peter Project boats. These boats, donated by Metrobank Foundation and Leslie Foundation, are bound for Capiz. The Sagay fiberglass plant, built under NVC’s livelihood program, was turned over to the local community, which was also hit by Typhoon...
It may not be immediately clear, but this is a photo of a fishing boat destroyed by the strongest storm to hit the Philippines in 2014, Ruby (international name: Hagupit). This super typhoon hit the Philippines in early December and forced the evacuation of millions of Filipinos. It made landfall in the Visayas, hitting many of the areas that...
Meet the Calvadores family of Garawon, Eastern Samar, who lost five family members to Typhoon Yolanda in November 2013. On the same month a year later, father of the family Edwin received a tricycle from British American Tobacco. This lets him to go back to his original livelihood of delivering bread for a bakery in the town...
Bash the Beagle turned two recently and did something we hope many more from both the dog-world and people-world would do, and celebrate their birthdays the way Bash did. Thank you, Bash, for sharing your birthday blessings with NVC Foundation! Woof woof!
Millie Kilayko, NVC President, posted about one of NVC’s Eastern Samar beneficiary communities when Typhoon Ruby made landfall in the province: “My heart bleeds at this sight. I could not help but shed a few tears. Two weeks ago, I took a photo of this sari-sari store in Brgy Garawon, Hernani, Eastern Samar. The colorful balloons...
To NVC’s partners, donors and friends: Our field officers and staff are currently monitoring the communities that we work with in the areas affected by Typhoon Ruby. In the evacuation centers where we have seen an immediate need for food and medicines, we have coordinated these with corresponding authorities in the respective local government...
Meet Julito Daa, a fisherman from San Jose, Tacloban. The first time we met Julito, it was difficult to see a smile on his face. He had just lost his wife and 9-month old baby, along with his parents and sister to the fury of Typhoon Yolanda. We saw his first smile when he received a Peter...
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