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...
NVC’s Aritsans of Hope workshop was closed on January 18, 2020. Everyone headed off to a picnic celebration because Jayson, one of our artisans, is now a registered criminologist. Jayson has been crafting mosaic pieces in the workshop while shuttling to and from school. It was hard to do both, but this helped him through school...
We happened to spot those familiar Peter Project boats on the shores of Carles, Iloilo. These were some of the 150 boats sponsored by Ayala Foundation, Inc., which we turned over to fishermen as replacements to what they lost to Typhoon Yolanda eight years ago. We had a quick reunion with Remy and Ruby Salmorin....
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...
One sari-sari store in Bago City has ventured to sell individual Mingo sachets. Vivian Piodos, a Bago City government employee, discovered Mingo through a feeding program in her barangay. It occurred to her that she could sell it the same way she does other powdered drinks. So she ordered a pack of Mingo Choco and...
NVC’s beloved Mingo turns 6 years old on July 8, 2017, and most fittingly, we are also manufacturing our 6 millionth Mingo Meal on this very day. Yes, that’s 6,000,000 packets of nutrition supplements to strengthen young bodies and minds since 2011. New foil packaging To mark the occasion, we’re giving this kid a new...
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...
The arithmetic of love is 8+1=1,000 8 In 2014, NVC Foundation’s Project Joseph endorsed tricycles to eight men in Hinigaran, Negros Island to help them support their families. +1 Two years later, these eight men paid forward. From their collective savings, they bought a tricycle and gave it another person in their community so that another family could have...
Meet the boy who launched a thousand (and more) pencils. 7,115 to be exact. Carl Gonzales’ photo stabbed our hearts late last year: the sight of a little boy who had to make do with a tiny pencil stub because his parents could only afford to buy one to break up to share among Carl and his...
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