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...
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!
NVC’s Mingo production plant in Negros Occidental makes instant meals for undernourished children and also provides workers a livelihood. Learn more about Mingo Invalid Displayed Gallery
Mingo enters Biliran province in Eastern Visayas through our partners–JDR Mission Partners, Inc. and Victor A. del Rosario. Biliran is one of the smallest provinces in the Philippines and was also hit hard by supertyphoon Yolanda. Victor posted on his Facebook wall: “Thank you and God bless Negrense Volunteers for Change/Millie Kilayko thru Alyne Batano...
Julian, a volunteer from Germany, joined the #bayanichallenge in Carles, Iloilo on May 23 and 24, 2014 and donates funds for children’s vitamins, Mingo Meals, and water for the benefit 2,000 local children. The municipality of Carles has the highest rate of malnourishment in the province of Iloilo. Thank you, Julian!
Thank you, Chef Tony Boy Escalante, for the contribution of Antonio’s Group of Restaurants to NVC’s Start Right, Live Bright Nutrition Program that provides Mingo Meals to undernourished children. Because of your generosity, 200 infants and toddlers will be enrolled in the program, with access to a 6-month daily feeding regimen on Mingo, our instant...
A gracious lady in Bacolod who wishes to remain anonymous celebrated her 75th birthday with a small group of family and friends, with explicit instructions that there should be no gifts except a contribution to NVC’s Mingo Meals project for our Start Right, Live Bright Nutrition Program. As well loved as she is, more than...
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!
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