Family bonding over meals and games may be fun and fulfilling–especially when most of the country is under community quarantine due to COVID-19, but when a family sits around the table to clean their used Nespresso capsules, that means they not only spent a good time together (and their parents sipped many nice cups of...
The kindness pandemic hit two young hearts and now, a meaningful mission is born— art that feeds. NVC’s young Ambassador of Hope, Diego, teamed up with his friend Joaquin, founder of Bid for the Future, to launch an online fundraising exhibit showcasing sustainable art pieces from NVC’s Artisans of Hope. Proceeds from the sale of...
Miracle pan de sal. How else do you call this Philippine heritage bread, lovingly made in Düsseldorf, Germany, that turns into fish, rice, vegetables, and Mingo to feed the hungry in the Philippines while its primary market in Europe enjoys it with a slab of melting butter and a slice of fine cheese? It’s been...
Absolutely. Art can heal indeed. We thank Charlie Co, Angela Silva, and the many artists who have heeded their call for an online exhibit to support NVC’s drive to provide protective personal equipment (PPEs) to medical frontliners in the war against COVID-19. Do peek into the ArtHeals Fundraising exhibit on Facebook. If anything strikes your...
When the students of Lamblight Catholic School in Bacolod City set up shop to sell peanuts, puto, pastries, and soap, they didn’t do it just for fun. They were in a race against malnutrition. On February 5, 2020, their efforts bore fruit! 53 children from one of Bacolod City’s poorest barangays began day 1 of...
A Bacolod-based team from business process outsourcing company Teleperformance spent one Sunday morning on the road to Bago with NVC Foundation’s Mingoy the Food Shuttle to give joy to 40 families–serving them Mingo champorado, engaging in games and fun, and sharing gift bags, including backpacks for the kids. While they’ve returned to their airconditioned and...
What does one of the Philippines’ top 100 lawyers (declared by Asian Business Law Journal 2019) do in her spare time? She goes with her teenage son to take a one-hour habal-habal ride and they walk another two hours up a mountain path where experienced motorcyclists dare not tread, to one of their home province’s...
A Nepalese doctor pays forward the generosity of Filipino fisherfolk who raised money for those affected by the earthquake in his home country. Dr. Rupesh Man Scherchan was a resident orthopedic surgeon at the Makati Medical Center and is now a fellow of Dr. Ramon Gustilo at the Gustilo Clinic and Ambulatory Surgery Center in...
Who says that Mingo Meals are only for kids? Certainly not this six footer. Six years ago, when he still had two human legs, Erik Lacson walked with us several kilometers along shoreline stretches in Leyte and Samar, to document our turnover of Peter Project boats to people who lost their boats to Typhoon Haiyan. After that,...
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