On every given day, there are about 2,000 kids somewhere in the Philippines taking a serving of Mingo, the nutritious complementary instant food made rice, mongo and malunggay produced by NVC. But this certainly is not enough, Among the basic sectors, children accounted for the largest number of the country’s poor population according to...
A few months ago, officials of Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), Makati Chapter, handed us their donation for 4 boats for the Peter Project. On July 11, IBP-Makati officials traveled Tanauan, Leyte to turn over the boats–writing messages and installing their logo on the bancas. The top photo shows them with the 4 beneficiary fishermen on the left....
A report from Guiuan Disaster Relief Coordination, Eastern Samar: A total of 52 new Peter Project fiberglass boats were distributed to fishermen in Sulangan in Guiuan, Eastern Samar. Aside from the fishing boats, GDRC also provided fishing kits which contains fishing nets, ropes, lamps and slippers from KEEN shoe company. These fishermen lost their boats when super typhoon...
The Asian Development Bank-AGAPP initiative to provide Mingo Meals to over 3,000 kinder-level kids in Negros island and Bicol kicked off today with an orientation dry run in one school. AGAPP and ADB representatives from Manila, and a ground partner from Bicol, joined NVC volunteers from Bacolod and Hinigaran for this event. See later post: Over 3,000 children enrolled...
NVC celebrates Nutrition Month this July by reporting that 2,921 children in Typhoon Yolanda-hit areas are enrolled in an ongoing Start Right, Live Bright Nutrition Program using Mingo Meals as primary source of good nutrition! Many thanks to our donors, partners, volunteers and field officers who have tirelessly kept this program rolling!
As of June 11, 2014, The Peter Project has received donations for 3,876 boats and turned over 2,954 to fishermen whose fishing boats were destroyed by Typhoon Yolanda. Click on the image to view a larger version. To know where the boats were delivered in each province, see our interactive map.
Two NVC mosaic tables flanked a Kenneth Cobonpue chair at the June 15, 2014 independence day celebration of Filipino craftsmanship in Lisbon, Portugal. Many, many thanks to Ambassador Philippe Lhullier and Consul General Gines Gallaga of the Philippine Embassy in Portugal for your support, to Moira Gallaga, for personally attending to orders and inquiries!
On June 24, 2014, fiberglass boat production technology transfer began for 30 Sagay trainees. The training was done at NVC’s Bacolod City fiberglass boat plant. Their day started with an orientation by Garth Noel Tolentino, NVC’s volunteer project manager for fiberglass boat production, to be followed by a weeklong hands-on program. This is part...
NVC will showcase its artisan-crafted livelihood products at the 29th Negros Trade Fair, happening on September 24-28, 2014 at the Glorietta Activity Center, Makati City. Here’s our merchandising team hard at work preparing for the event. See you all there!
On June 19, 2014, in the remote island-barangay Lat-asan in Capiz, Panay, we turned over our 2,500th boat, one of the 36 donated by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). JDC is the world’s leading Jewish humanitarian assistance organization. The beneficiary was fisherman Noli Alabanis, who was so poor that he could only afford...
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