As if what she’s doing in the frontlines isn’t enough, Dr. Maritel Riego Ledesma, Chief of Hospital at the Teresita Lopez Jalandoni Provincial Hospital, has even opted to give up her coming birthday gifts and have them support our causes at NVC. We discovered this as we received notice from Facebook that Doc Maritel kicked...
When many others jump for joy on your birthday, you know you are truly blessed. But imagine strangers from burdened backgrounds giving you their biggest smiles and genuinely celebrating your day through singing and dancing? Now, that’s a gift from above. In Mitos’ own words… So now I’m considered middle-aged, but that doesn’t mean I...
When Carla and Maridel said they wanted to celebrate their birthdays on board Mingoy, NVC’s food shuttle, their friends, including those living in Manila and Cebu, vowed to make it happen. And so one morning, the group traveled to Brgy. Ayungon, La Carlota in Negros Occidental to serve food, man the Good Food Grocer rolling...
It was Luc’s 3rd Birthday and his family decided to celebrate it differently this year–with those who who’d be cheered up more just to be “a part of a party.” With some planning by Luc’s Lola Telly, his parents threw a happy one at the Holy Infant Nursery, where kids were treated to yummy party...
Mica (in the center photo with her Tita Bugsy) lost her life too soon two years ago in a tragic vehicular accident. On November 4, what would have been Mica’s 19th birthday, her Tita Bugsy found a wonderful way to share Mica’s memory 19,000 times with kids whose most recent memories are tragic, whose days...
What happens when a clan celebrates their patriarch’s 91st birthday with a trip on the Mingoy Food Shuttle, and the matriarch, though limited by her medical condition, gathers all her strength and pops in to join the feeding mission? Three generations of the Teng and Nelia Jacinto family made a journey to the countryside yesterday...
When Trish Golez celebrated her 60th birthday, she requested LoveBags for needy schoolchildren instead of presents for herself. Her family and friends all together contributed 126 LoveBags, to which she added 80 more as her own thanksgiving for her milestone year.
Priyasha (left in inset photo) and Anagha (right) Chakravarti are twins who turned 17 in September. Both in Grade 11 at the International School Manila, they asked for no gifts for themselves. Instead, they asked for contributions to NVC’s LoveBag project from their friends (in larger photo), which provides backpacks filled with school supplies to...
There’s really nothing much you can think of as gift for Jojo Montinola for his birthday, so his family decided to gift others instead on his behalf. And that’s how they spent the morning of September 21, 2019 with him, riding in the Mingoy bus to serve close to 200 people in one of Bacolod...
When her husband Gody asked Debbie Weniger what she wanted for her birthday, all she asked was for 40 malnourished children from impoverished families back home in the Philippines to be enrolled in the Mingo Meals nutrition program. This would mean these kids getting a good chance at crossing the line from malnourished to normal...
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