Dianna Jean Callejo Cruz is an NVC volunteer and champion Mingo advocate who so lovingly and valiantly brings Mingo where and when it is most difficult to do so. For two weekends now, she has spent what would have been quality time with her daughter in the midst of those who fled the war in Marawi. Here is...
As soon as NVC embarked on the Mingo for Marawi drive, there was one lady who set herself on a relentless begging mission to harness funds, big and small for the Marawi children we need to feed with Mingo Meals. And how well Pia Camus did her job! She started by bringing cans to a meeting in...
For NVC, Dianna Jean Callejo Cruz is the commander-in-chief of the Mingo Army that would go to children in the heart of disasters. She brought Mingo to Bohol after the earthquake and to Leyte after Typhoon Yolanda. Now, she leads the Mingo Army to the shelters for Marawi evacuees. This is Part 1 of the Mingo for...
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...
Students from Xavier University (Ateneo de Cagayan) have been going door to door to distribute Mingo Meals that have been donated by NVC donors. With too few and under-resourced evacuation centers able to take care of the displaced, majority of them have actually been staying with relatives and friends in nearby cities and municipalities. In Cagayan de Oro, relief...
See original article: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/local-news/2017/06/12/nvc-sends-almost-40000-mingo-meals-marawi-kids-547010 By CARLA N. CAÑET Negros Volunteers for Change (NVC) sent 39,159 Mingo meals over the weekend for children in Marawi City affected by the clash the between government troops and the Maute group. Millie Kilayko, head of NVC and chairperson of the Rise Against Hunger Philippines, said it is timely to...
On June 9, 2017, a retired teacher who wishes to remain anonymous deposited Php 135,180.60 to send 23,307 Mingo Meals to Marawi evacuees in Mindanao. Only three days earlier, she began a Facebook fundraising campaign to raise awareness about the increasing number of refugees, many of them children, in evacuation centers housing those who had...
Help us send Mingo Meals to Marawi evacuees To assist displaced fellow Filipinos from war-torn Marawi City in Mindanao, NVC has been sending Mingo Meals to our ground partners in Mindanao to help feed the many evacuees who are unable to return home. Mingo for Marawi photo gallery ” order_by=”imagedate” order_direction=”DESC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] How you can help Each Mingo Meal...
Read this article online at: http://www.visayandailystar.com/2017/June/08/topstory6.htm
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