The Farmers of Hope community in Barangay Idangon, San Isidro, Davao del Norte was established in 2020. The community thanked us profusely for the assistance we gave them but in all honesty, we should be thanking them. Their hard work has set off a beautiful ripple effect. These farmers have been growing some of the...
Mushrooms are the perfect symbol of resilience. Most things need light to survive but mushrooms thrive in darkness. We have certainly experienced darkness during this pandemic but this only makes the moments of brightness shine brighter. In August 2020, our Farmers of Hope in San Isidro, Davao del Norte had a robust harvest of mushrooms....
At NVC, we link dreams to donors and donors to dreams. Many Filipinos have the simple dream of being better able to support their families. Our volunteers on the ground in Albay put us in touch with four such dreamers: Elena Typhoon Ulysses damaged the home of Elena Binas. To earn extra money for repairs,...
Nestled in the mountains of Kapalong, Davao del Norte, this indigenous Ata Manobo settlement is named after the river Mangkay, which needs to be crossed to reach the village. Here one can find four makeshift classrooms as the center of learning where children need to kneel on the floor to write. When Jessie, our...
NVC Christmas parties at NVC are never small affairs. We always make sure that the people we serve are represented and join in the fun. For Christmas 2019, 30 pedicab drivers who received their units through our Project Joseph were present. One of the games we played together was musical chairs, but using their pedicabs!...
For the Mercado family, rising from the ashes is not a figure of speech. It’s literal and real. We first met this family in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City, when we enrolled one of the kids in NVC’s Mingo Meals nutrition program. The family only lived off the few scraps that Reynaldo could gather and sell,...
Fire hit 215 family homes in the coastal barangay of Banago in Bacolod City on June 10, 2019. Within the day, NVC’s Food Shuttle, Mingoy, was at the site to serve Mingo champorado and pan de sal to all the affected residents. Among the families we met were the Dellosas. As Ruel pointed out his...
In two evacuation centers for refugees from war-torn Marawi in Mindanao, NVC acted as a conduit to provide 6 families with an improved income stream and hope for a brighter future. Under NVC’s Project Joseph project, we identified and vetted 6 motorcycle drivers who had fled their homes in Marawi when violence erupted, and could...
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