When there’s love, the heart doesn’t skip a beat. In January 2020, Euric Guerrero, a stranger to us, set up a Facebook Fundraiser as a memorial to his recently deceased father, Eugenio Guerrero. Euric and his siblings, who all reside abroad, decided to set the fundraiser’s goal at $2,020 (approximately Php102,533), the year of their...
Congratulations, Province of Iloilo! Our hearts leap with joy to see the drastic drop in the rate of child undernutrition in your province–from 38% in 2000 to 3% in 2019! You are true nutrition champions! We celebrate with you because since 2014, 2,045,670 Mingo Meals have crossed the waters from the NVC production plant in...
What a wonderful Mingo party it was! Holding hands together with us were the combined forces of Office of the Mayor, the Municipal Nutrition Office, Municipal Social Welfare Office, Association of Barangay Captains, and the Sapang Kawayan Elementary School in Matictic, Municipality of Norzagaray, Bulacan. A full retinue of barangay nutrition scholars added marshmallows to...
In a mountain village called Lono Lono, 75 families live with no access to electricity. Situated in Kapalong, Davao del Norte, the community is 90 kilometers away from the main town. A 2.5-hour motorcycle ride that runs through three rivers is needed to reach this mountain community. Here, people work on the land to harvest...
As of September 19, 2019, 2,380 children in nine different locations in the Philippines are taking Mingo Meals daily. Add 542 in three other locations who are about to start, and that totals nearly 3,000 children enrolled for a protocol of daily feeding for six months. And we hope to reach even more as support...
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...
Original article: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1130627/group-targets-10m-mingo-meals-in-january-2020 By: Carla P. Gomez – Correspondent BACOLOD CITY—At least 10 million packs of nutritious food for malnourished children by early next year. This was the target of a nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in Negros Occidental, according to its leaders. The Negrense Volunteers for Change (NVC) has launched this campaign which involved the...
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