A total of 154 children from the indigenous Tala-andig tribe in Mindanao are off to a brighter, healthier start this 2018, having been enrolled in NVC’s 6-month feeding program. The participants, aged 6 months to 12 years, will be given daily Mingo Meals, NVC’s proven food supplement consisting of rice, moringa (malunggay), and mung beans (monggo)....
Every year, NVC joins prestigious holiday bazaars in Manila to market its handmade Artisans of Hope mosaics and crocheted items. The craftspeople who make the products directly benefit from each sale, and all proceeds are funneled back to our Mingo Meals nutrition program for undernourished children in the Philippines. In 2017, we joined the MaArte Fair...
A new partnership with maritime healthcare company Halcyon Marine Healthcare Systems and Project Liwanag, a nonprofit that serves indigenous Aetas in Northern Luzon, has enabled the feeding of 37 Aeta children with daily Mingo Meals for one year. Mingo Meals landed in Capas, Tarlac on October 23, 2017 after a 45-minute ride on a four-wheel-drive...
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...
On June 19, 2017, 200 children in Brgy. Tinampaan, Cadiz, Negros Island were enrolled in the Equis Zero Hunger program, of which NVC is a part. 200 Cadiz children to be fed for a year A hundred infants and toddlers will be given daily Mingo Meals for one year, while another hundred school-age children will be fed with rice...
Almost three years ago, NVC played a supporting role in a project funded by the Asian Development Bank and spearheaded by AGAPP Foundation. NVC implemented a 200-day feeding program using Mingo Meals in 45 preschools around Negros Island and Bicol. It was part of a much larger project designed to enhance access to quality early childhood education...
Dianna Jean Callejo Cruz is an NVC volunteer and champion Mingo advocate who so lovingly and valiantly brings Mingo where and when it is most difficult to do so. For two weekends now, she has spent what would have been quality time with her daughter in the midst of those who fled the war in Marawi. Here is...
For NVC, Dianna Jean Callejo Cruz is the commander-in-chief of the Mingo Army that would go to children in the heart of disasters. She brought Mingo to Bohol after the earthquake and to Leyte after Typhoon Yolanda. Now, she leads the Mingo Army to the shelters for Marawi evacuees. This is Part 1 of the Mingo for...
While NVC runs its own Mingo Meals nutrition program, Mingo is also used by other foundations and groups for their own feeding activities because of Mingo’s convenience, low cost, and effectiveness. Recently, we received a donation of Php 25,000 with instructions to send 5,000 sachets of Mingo Choco to Rise Above Foundation Cebu. The group is using the donation to...
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