Even though Christmas has just begun, we’ve already received so many presents for our San Carlos Farmers of Hope! This is a group of 60 small farmers from the Indigenous Peoples. They supply the raw materials for our Mingo Meals. The Office of the Provincial Agriculturist of Negros Occidental gave them a mongo thresher and...
We wanted to bring some holiday cheer to those affected by Super Typhoon Odette. So when we brought relief goods to Purok Alimango in Camarus Island, Binalbagan on Christmas day, we had something special loaded—a cotton candy machine! First we loaded it on a truck, then a boat, and finally, a tricycle till it reached...
Food Security to Combat Hunger We are working towards a Philippines free from hunger and poverty. One way to address hunger and poverty is to ensure food security. Through initiatives such as the Growing Hope project, we have been working to help communities gain reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. This...
Thank you very much to the kind donor who made Genedina’s dreams come true! This donor asked us to find a beneficiary in need of a sewing machine to improve her lot in life. Genedina fit the bill. She had been longing for years to have a sewing machine to augment their family’s meager income....
We work closely with Fr. Aldrin Lopez of the Sacred Parish of Novaliches. Before we kicked off the Mingo Meals Feeding Program for the parish, the children in the photos Fr. Lopez sent to us were very listless. But when the feeding program was implemented, the children in the photos were bright-eyed and smiling. Here...
Our Talisay Gardeners of Hope enjoyed a successful first harvest. Meanwhile, the sun shines down on another Garden of Hope! 16 kinds of vegetables are in different stages of growth in this garden on the fringes of Helvetia Subdivision, Bacolod City. A generous benefactor allowed us to use the land. On this patch of earth,...
Our First Garden of Hope As early as 2019, NVC was helping small farming communities work towards food security. We called these farmers our Farmers of Hope. We provided them with new farm tools, seeds and simple training. This helped them improve their internal food supply. Much of their food was grown right in the...
Mingo has worked its magic on these kids! We received a large load of “before and after” photos and a report that most of the 1,500 children on Mingo Meals at the Jesuit Mission Station in Caloocan are much improved. Fr Willy Saman S.J., our energetic ground partner, now classifies them healthy!
In 2020, NVC supported hospitals and healthcare workers by providing PPEs. As part of Phase 2 of our fight against the Covid-19 Crisis, we have been feeding hospital frontliners whenever possible. We support partner hospitals in Bacolod and Manila. On August 16 of this year, Philippine General Hospital (PGH) closed its doors to non-Covid-19 patients....
27-year old Shiela Mae Baconggon’s dream finally came true! She had a very simple dream of having her own cooking tools and equipment to sell a wide variety of snack items such as siomai, cheese sticks, fishballs and kikiam. Shiela works hard selling camote cue and banana cue using old tools borrowed from her mother....
