NVC kicks off construction of schoolhouse for indigenous children in Negros Island

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March 30, 2017

Update: This project was completed in June 2017 and has been turned over! Read the article.

Thanks to the contribution of one donor, NVC in March 2017 began construction of a preschool building, while also pooling together additional contributions to build a playground for children of the indigenous people in Sitio Bugtong Lubi, Hinobaan, Negros Island. Sitio Bugtong Lubi is a mountain community that is extremely marginalized due to its remote, difficult to access location.

Along with NVC, the Philippine Department of Public Works and Highways and another NGO, Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation are also constructing school infrastructure for the community.

Construction of the preschool at Sitio Bugtong Lubi, Hinobaan, Negros Island
Sito Bugtong Lubi is located in the mountains of Negros and is extremely difficult to access. Notice the habal-habal/motorcycle at the right of the photo.
This is the current (unrehabilitated) schoolhouse at Sitio Bugtong Lubi.

And kids get Mingo Meals, too!

Majority of the children in the community are underweight and don’t get enough food to eat due to poverty. To nourish their bodies as well as their minds, NVC will enroll the preschool students of Sitio Bugtong Lubi in its 6-month Mingo Meals feeding program.

Schoolchildren of Magsaysay Primary School in Hinobaan

NVC has been working with the artist Pia Camus, who donates the proceeds of sales of her paintings to fund the feeding of children. As of March 2017, sales of Pia’s paintings will be able to fund the feeding of the incoming kinder class.

This is one of the paintings of artist Pia Camus. She donates proceeds from the sales of her paintings to enroll undernourished children in NVC’s Mingo Meals feeding program.
We look forward to this completed project in the near future!