NVC Foundation joined the fight against COVID-19 starting early March 2020. From this time to the end of May, when much of the Philippines was under quarantine, we provided food to marginalized families with decreased or no income due to work stoppage, in the form of 468,441 Mingo Meals and 4,643 Feeding Force Project meal bags. Together with volunteers, we also produced personal protective equipment (PPEs) to COVID-19 frontliners in Negros Occidental: 8,467 face shields, 17,040 lab gowns, and 4,643 face masks. We ended the PPE program on May 31, 2020 after having completed a substantial distribution of reusable PPEs.
Together with the #HeadgearToSaveLives initiative started by a group of Negrenses, we’re equipping health workers in our province of Negros Occidental with volunteer-made facial guards and hospital gowns as they battle COVID-19. We work with both volunteer sewers as well as those from marginalized communities (some of whom received their sewing machines through our Project Joseph). Those who have lost their livelihood are paid for each PPE produced to help them during these tough times.
Many Filipinos from impoverished communities are unable to work and earn a daily income due to quarantine restrictions. Each Feeding Force food pack contains 5.6 kg of produce from small farmers and 500 g of dried fish from marginal fisherfolk, helping those unable to sell their crops and catch. We’ve added 3 kg of rice, and of course, 15 Mingo Meals to the bag. You may also donate purely Mingo Meals to hungry children. Just include this request in the special instructions section of your donation.
Good morning!
We thought we all need a little cheering up today, and so we share this photo of our fashionista medical…Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Monday, April 13, 2020
While we were sleeping…..
Kim and team were weighing rice in her home, preparing rice to form part of meal bags of our…Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Monday, April 13, 2020
Happy Easter! We claim blessings of the Resurrection for you all!
(Photo shows members of the medical team at the…
Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Saturday, April 11, 2020
Second delivery of #MingoMeals to Iloilo 🙏
We thank our partners for taking special care of the children and making…
Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Thursday, April 9, 2020
Love Delivers. Always.
What better way to celebrate the delivery of the 5,000th PPE gown today, than knowing that all…Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Wednesday, April 8, 2020
You just don’t know how much this photograph means to us. It represents grit and never ending determination to do…
Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Monday, April 6, 2020
4,197 PPE gowns delivered to-date today!
And it’s a great day to celebrate a milestone with happy prints. We thank our…
Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Monday, April 6, 2020
We got a Thank You message from this bunch of doctors at the Teresita Lopez Jalandoni Provincial Hospital in Silay,…
Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Friday, April 3, 2020
Docked and Delivered: Mingo has reached hungry little tummies in the province of Iloilo.
For more information on how to help: Mingo for Iloilo
#covid19ph #mingoforiloilo
Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Friday, April 3, 2020
Not all heroes work in hospitals. Some paddle with sewing machines.
Amelita received her sewing machine through NVC…
Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Thursday, April 2, 2020
To all of you who have supported our mission to contribute a bit of help during this worldwide crisis, here is our…
Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Aaawwww.
You didn’t have to do this! Because it’s us who should thank you for all you do. But we say “you’re welcome” in…Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Sunday, March 29, 2020
Hands on the deck, wheels on the roll. While volunteer hands continue to craft headgear and sew gowns for our…
Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Monday, March 23, 2020
Building up reserves.As the global health emergency was looming, we shipped out #MingoMeals for all the ongoing Mingo…
Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Thursday, March 19, 2020
Behind the scenes on these first few sets of gowns already done: to help sewers from the marginal sector, we decided on…
Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Saturday, March 21, 2020
Love in the time of coronavirus. Francis and Centaine were all set to marry in New York City's Central Park surrounded…
Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Sunday, March 22, 2020
The volunteer city never sleeps. This is the Quality Control Center of the facial shield team where all headgears made…
Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Monday, March 23, 2020
This is from her personal FB post, but this is a story that intertwines with us at NVC. So we share the story of our…
Posted by NVC Foundation – Negrense Volunteers for Change on Monday, March 23, 2020
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