Domingo Divinagracia is a 32-year old farmer who tills his father’s 2-hectare farm, purchased from savings as an overseas worker. The municipality of Hinigaran, where Domingo lives, also allows him to work on a 4-hectare site in exchange for taking care of the area where garbage is segregated and young trees have been planted. Story...
What a difference a boat makes! From the birth of their first to third sons, Gary and Rhodora lived in a shack that you see under the tree on the right hand side of the photo. In early 2018, the couple received a motorized fishing boat through NVC’s Peter Project. What Gary now earns from his...
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...
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...
Meet Wilma, Carmelita, and Anisa. These ladies in one of our communities had sewing skills–but no tools to make a living out of their talent. Last Christmas, a friend of NVC donated sewing machines through NVC’s Project Joseph and worked with us to prepare Christmas cards for her loved ones, telling them that her gift...
On April 29, 2015, Rolando Pamplona and his fellow fishermen came back from a day of fishing in the waters off Palo, Leyte. Rolando brought in his catch using his banca, a native Philippine boat, named Comunita ‘di Piansano for the Italian town that donated the vessel via NVC’s Peter Project. A day’s work earns...
The Project Joseph recipients of sewing machines in Brgy. Gargato, Hinigaran, Negros Occidental, received a purchase order worth over Php 4,000 from Vicmik Enterprises for 216 cloth bags. It is hoped that this will be the first of a continuing line of orders. Vicmik Enterprises is a Bacolod-based garments company that manufactures children’s clothing. It...
Meet Ricky Pasacao of Palo, Leyte, a Peter Project beneficiary. He’s grinning from ear to because he just caught 3 kilos of fish from his boat, Carewell 1, donated by the Carewell Community, a cancer resource and wellness community. The selling price of fish is P300 per kilo, but Ricky plans to dry some of his...
Fishermen-entrepreneurs: this is what a group of Peter Project beneficiaries in Palo, Leyte has become. On the shoreline near where they park their boats, these enterprising beneficiaries have constructed 7 sheds that they rent for P300 a day to beach goers. They also operate a store as well, with a karaoke machine available for a fee of course. After they...
