Meet Enzo, a 15-year-old painter whose bold, colorful work has appeared in various exhibits in Manila. His parents, Dean and Chu Calleja, have generously allowed NVC to reproduce four of his paintings in gift cards, sales of which will fund Mingo Meals for malnourished children all over the Philippines. Enzo is a teen living with...
FAIRY TALE: Cinderella’s pumpkin turned into a coach. TRUE STORY: Turnips turned into 114 LoveBag backpacks filled with school supplies, and 114 pairs of LoveFits slippers. This is the magic that 80 sixth grade students managed to perform in the village of Richterswil, Switzerlan. For the annual Räbechilbi festival, when the village center turns into a...
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,...
Just a few months after the Spouses of Heads of Mission (SHOM) of the Diplomatic Corps in the Philippines turned over their donation to NVC, two new classrooms have risen in the village of Maliwanag on the slopes Mt Kitanglad, Bukidnon, in Southern Philippines funded by SHOM. This is on top of a 6-month feeding program...
In a house on a hill lives Jenny, a mother with three daughters, Donna, Chona, and Cherry. The sisters—aged 7 to 11—love school and have big dreams of being a doctor or teacher one day. Every day, the sisters attend to homework and household chores. The eldest, Donna, helps her mother cook and tend to...
In May 2018, Maite Hontiveros Dittke, owner of Maite’s Asian Cuisine in Düsseldorf, Germany, participated in her city’s Japan Day by selling her famous kamameshi rice. She committed part of the sales towards Mingo. And that is the way it goes with NVC’s donors… From all over the world, we receive help towards feeding more kids,...
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...
It wasn’t quite like the kind of birthday parties that Matty would ordinarily have in his home in the USA, or the kind he would attend when he would come to visit relatives in the Philippines. That’s because Matty celebrated his 6th birthday with 50 kinder kids of lesser means in a public school in...
NVC’s young ambassador, Abram Bisuña, gave us quite a big surprise. After he has his parents, Diek and Jane, flew in from Manila to attend the LoveBag packing event on May 7, 2018, he gave us a giant check he drew himself, representing funds collected both from children and adults, enough to provide 120 children...
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