NVC’s Project Joseph was envisioned to provide skilled persons with a single tool or piece of equipment that they need to jumpstart them into a better future for their families. That’s how John Rell Flores began to earn better when he received his pedicab in August 2017 through the project. But John did something better....
In a house on a hill lives Jenny, a mother with three daughters, Donna, Chona, and Cherry. The sisters—aged 7 to 11—love school and have big dreams of being a doctor or teacher one day. Every day, the sisters attend to homework and household chores. The eldest, Donna, helps her mother cook and tend to...
We received happy news that Lilang Ala, a widow with 8 children and an evacuee from Marawi City, has been busy churning out school uniforms using the sewing machine she received through a Project Joseph donor from another part of the world. She is among those to whom we turned over sewing machines during our...
Lanesra Foundation, a nonprofit whose objective is to help individuals become economically self-sufficient, made it a merry Christmas for 18 recipients in Negros Occidental by giving the gift of livelihood. Under NVC’s Project Joseph, Lanesra partnered with us to identify workers who could increase their income if they were provided a much-needed but unaffordable tool...
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 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...
For many decades of her life, Mary An Kilayko-Gonzalez was wheelchair bound. When God took her away on December 13, 2015, her classmates knew that a life as beautiful as hers needed to somehow be made to continue living in others. They embarked on a project in partnership with NVC Foundation and began to receive...
This Christmas, give the gift of livelihood, and life. In many of the poor communities where we work, we encounter skilled, talented people who simply lack the resources and tools to make the most of their abilities. With just a little bit of help, they could fulfill their dream of earning more and living a better...
On November 23, 2015, Metrobank Foundation signed a memorandum of agreement with NVC to provide assistance to Project Joseph and nutritional programs in Iloilo and Capiz. NVC President Millie Kilayko handed over NVC’s gift of an artisan mosaic eggshell piece to Aniceto Sobrepena, Metrobank Foundation President.
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