Read the original article here: http://www.visayandailystar.com/2019/March/08/people.htm
If you gave or received a card like this one, know NVC has started–with proceeds from the sales–to enroll 40 children in NVC’s Mingo Meals nutrition program that will provide them with daily access to this instant meal made of rice, mongo and malunggay for six months. The children come from an impoverished shoreline village...
Mingo Meals for 43 children of the indgenous Filipino T’boli tribe are now on their way to this small barangay of just about a thousand people. Called Batian, it is the T’Boli term for junction of the big river. Here the tribe plays an important role: they host the nesting territory of the critically endangered...
Meet Walter Ramos, a Mingo hero. Literally through land, sea and air, Walter has been bringing Mingo Meals and toys to undernourished children in Bunuangin Elementary School in Port Barton, Palawan for two years now. Manila-based, he uses personal and friends’ resources to help his cause, starting with 69 children, of which 29 were malnourished,...
Thank you, Spouses of Heads of Mission (SHOM) in the Philippines for your generous support of our NVC’s nutrition and education programs, given on July 11, 2018. A special thank you to Susan Batungbacal Fries for introducing NVC to the SHOM, and patiently being involved in a long running exchange of communication until the donation...
Good news from far flung Dinagat Islands, Philippines. Less than a year ago, Dr. Jillian Francise Lee, the only doctor covering nine barangays of the town of Tubajon in the province of Dinagat Islands, implemented a feeding program using Mingo Meals for the malnourished children in her town. Tubajon had one of the highest malnutrition rates...
Read original article at: http://opinion.inquirer.net/112387/hungry-stunted-children Jonathan Oya has become the face of hunger and child malnutrition in the country. When the Subanen boy died in February of severe malnutrition in the family home in a remote village in Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur, he weighed a mere 15 kilograms — ideal for a 4-year-old. He was...
See original article at: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/981000/boys-death-gives-life-to-nutrion-programs-in-zambo-sur-village LABANGAN, Zamboanga del Sur — The death of a 12-year-old boy of hunger had given life to efforts to save other children in an impoverished community here and elsewhere from the silent killer known as malnutrition. The death of Jonathan Oya last Feb. 14 at home in the village of...
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