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...
Original article: http://www.visayandailystar.com/2019/November/04/topstory5.htm
View original article: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1185168/negros-group-sends-meals-for-kids-in-quake-stricken-cotabato By: Carla P. Gomez – Correspondent / @carlagomezINQInquirer Visayas / 04:55 PM November 03, 2019 BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental, Philippines — The Negrense Volunteers for Change (NVC) delivered on Saturday 20,000 Mingo meals to children in Cotabato province, which was among the areas in Mindanao affected by a strong earthquake last...
For the Mercado family, rising from the ashes is not a figure of speech. It’s literal and real. We first met this family in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City, when we enrolled one of the kids in NVC’s Mingo Meals nutrition program. The family only lived off the few scraps that Reynaldo could gather and sell,...
Fire hit 215 family homes in the coastal barangay of Banago in Bacolod City on June 10, 2019. Within the day, NVC’s Food Shuttle, Mingoy, was at the site to serve Mingo champorado and pan de sal to all the affected residents. Among the families we met were the Dellosas. As Ruel pointed out his...
Mingoy, NVC’s food shuttle, was designed to go anywhere it’s needed in Negros and neighboring islands. Two days after a fire that affected 17 households in Purok Kahirup,Brgy. Mansilingan, Bacolod City, Mingoy was on the scene to distribute Mingo Meals to children and arroz caldo with pan de sal to adults taking shelter in an...
See original article at: http://www.visayandailystar.com/2018/January/24/topstory5.htm A Negros-based foundation has delivered 9,656 Mingo meals to evacuees displaced by Mayon Volcano’s phreatic explosions starting Sunday until yesterday, and is accepting donations so that more assistance can be sent. The Negrense Volunteers for Change Foundation delivered the Mingo meals to children in seven evacuation centers in Legaspi City,...
Send Mingo Meals to Mt. Mayon evacuees Help feed the Mt. Mayon evacuees by sending Mingo Meals to centers where they’ve taken shelter. 40,000 people are currently in evacuation centers. 20,000 more are expected. Now at alert level 4, the volcano is expected to erupt in a few days. How you can help Each Mingo Meal...
Merly Oboso (above, center) worked with a family in Bacolod for 29 years. The children she cared for, Sam (left) and Philip (right), are now adults. Sam, 24, is a Kumon assistant teacher for preschool and early elementary students while Philip, 27, is a medical doctor. After Yaya Merly saw him receive his diploma and...
Mingo first found its way to Leyte to help feed the survivors of Typhoon Haiyan. On July 6, another disaster hit Leyte. Though smaller in scale, it still affected thousands of people: a 6.5 magnitude earthquake and over 700 aftershocks in the span of a week caused the hard hit city of Ormoc and the...
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