Two young donors who brought their savings to the NVC Foundation office and made a contribution to the Mingo Meals drive for the typhoon-stricken residents of Aurora Province, and they made it to the news! Thank you, Jerry Marshal and Ella Jane Candido of University of St La Salle for setting an example of civic spirit to other...
Congresswoman Mercedes Alvarez of the 6th District in Negros Occidental shared her experience of bringing Mingo to different barangays in her area. “Meal time with the day care children of Brgys 1 & 2 of Ilog. We covered 6 day care centers and 153 children The meals consist of Mingo mix (rice, moringa & monggo) and...
It was an invitation we simply couldn’t refuse. Andro Barrientos, a Grade 3 student at The Beacon School, had been persistently asking his mom Reggie and teacher Karen David to feature NVC in their Social Studies lesson on “Organizations and How They Can Help Solve Social Problems.” NVC volunteer Josephine Gonzalez Ruiz spoke to...
On August 12, 2014, 3,852 children gained a headstart towards a better future today. In 45 schools in Negros island and Bicol, these kinder children simultaneously started a supplemental feeding program using Mingo Meals, an instant mix of rice, mongo and moringa (malunggay). The feeding program is managed by AGAPP Foundation and funded by the Asian Development Bank through...
When we meet with our beneficiaries, we are frequently greeted with wide smiles, copious thanks, and stories of successes large or small. But on the ground and in the field, there are sad tales to tell, too. NVC President Millie Kilayko first met Maria Luisa at age 2 in March 2014 when we turned over our 1,000th Peter Project...
On every given day, there are about 2,000 kids somewhere in the Philippines taking a serving of Mingo, the nutritious complementary instant food made rice, mongo and malunggay produced by NVC. But this certainly is not enough, Among the basic sectors, children accounted for the largest number of the country’s poor population according to...
The Asian Development Bank-AGAPP initiative to provide Mingo Meals to over 3,000 kinder-level kids in Negros island and Bicol kicked off today with an orientation dry run in one school. AGAPP and ADB representatives from Manila, and a ground partner from Bicol, joined NVC volunteers from Bacolod and Hinigaran for this event. See later post: Over 3,000 children enrolled...
NVC celebrates Nutrition Month this July by reporting that 2,921 children in Typhoon Yolanda-hit areas are enrolled in an ongoing Start Right, Live Bright Nutrition Program using Mingo Meals as primary source of good nutrition! Many thanks to our donors, partners, volunteers and field officers who have tirelessly kept this program rolling!
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!
