Beth Ginete of the Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals (BCBP) Makati talks about her experience donating to the Peter Project and joined NVC during the turnover in Carles, Iloilo on April 23, 2014. She describes feeling “indescribable joy… seeing their grateful eyes and smiles! I was instantly moved to tears… Thank you Lord for...
Julian, a volunteer from Germany, joined the #bayanichallenge in Carles, Iloilo on May 23 and 24, 2014 and donates funds for children’s vitamins, Mingo Meals, and water for the benefit 2,000 local children. The municipality of Carles has the highest rate of malnourishment in the province of Iloilo. Thank you, Julian!
The I CAN Team invited NVC to join Gawad Kalinga’s Bayani Challenge, which found us in Barangay Tulungatung, Zamboanga City for an afternoon of Mingo and fun with almost 500 kids from families affected by Zamboanga’s September 2013 peace and order crisis. What a great experience sharing Mingo Love with these children. Thank you to all our Mingo donors!
Cecilia Gomez Anderson is a teacher and author by profession, a dancer and traveler by passion. Cecilia raised funds among her neighbors in Bella Vista, Arkansas for three boats for Peter Project fishermen who lost their boats to Typhoon Yolanda. One boat is done, and now Cecilia bakes egg rolls every Sunday and sells them, so...
Excerpts from the Leyte Diary of Dianna Callejo Cruz, our Mingo Mission volunteer, who went to Leyte after supertyphoon Haiyan for Mingo Missions. Getting to Cebu, from the DFC Warehouse, via a taxi, we transported the Mingo boxes in Pier 4. We had to do 2 trips. Then, I opted to take the SuperCat ferry...
Vicky Torre has lived in the USA for a long time and to the Philippines last week for a break. She hired car service to take her to the airport and board her flight home. As she pulled out money to pay the driver, he handed her a US$10.00 bill and said, “I have to give you money too. Take...
Meet Tet Saldaña-Ko, a Cebu-based fashion designer and Mingo volunteer. Here is the report we received from her today: “I’m happy to report that the Mingo I served in one of the barangays in Medellin, north of Cebu, was a super hit!!! I was able to make 300 cups. I mixed the Mingo with water,...
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