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Visayan Daily Star: Outstanding Negrense awardee delivers P106M in Yolanda aid
Original story at: http://www.visayandailystar.com/2014/November/06/topstory2.htm
Original story at: http://www.visayandailystar.com/2014/November/06/topstory2.htm
On November 5, 2014, the Provincial Government of Negros Occidental bestowed the Outstanding Negrense Award on NVC Foundation for its work in promoting child development, improving livelihood opportunities for the poor, and supporting public school education. This is the first time that the award was given to an organization rather than a number of individual Negrenses, as is the...
NVC hosted a day of thanks for donors, partners, volunteers, and friends on September 26, 2014 at the Negros Trade Fair. We displayed photos and stories of how our volunteers and donors have made a positive change in the lives of beneficiaries. In the haste to be where we were needed most, we couldn’t find the...
Before and after: Hermie, our first Peter Project beneficiary fisherman, beside the house he was living in as of February 2013, when we first me him. At that time, he was earning P50 daily on good days as fisherman’s helper. Life was so bad that Hermie said he had no dreams. Read Hermie’s story here Today,...
Meet father and daughter team Hazel and Bello. Bello is the master carpenter of NVC’s livelihood projects, the man behind our bestselling folding tables and other beautiful, handcrafted furniture. His daughter, Hazel, is a fine arts student and is one of our artisans. Bello and his wife, Hermie, were originally hesitant about Hazel’s chosen course because its...
Jamil Durana of Palo, Leyte went out to sea early morning today on his Peter Project boat named Carewell 2 from The Carewell Community Foundation. He returned home with a prize catch of crabs and a fish weighing 5 kg! Jamil expects to earn about P1,300 today. This is 5-6 times more than what a fisherman normally...
Meet Sammy Cherreguine of Cogon, Palo, Leyte. He received his Peter Project boat named VERA only on June 19, so he has not been fishing that long. Today was a great day for Sammy. His catch was abundant, the sizes were good, and he netted more than Php600 from it. This is double or even triple what he...
Meet Ray Linde and his wife Jinky, who won a boat race with their Peter Project boat in Palo, Leyte last June 7 during the annual fiesta. In the middle of July, Rey signed up to join another boat race among fishermen in Bislig, Tolosa, Leyte. But no one dared race against him because everyone...
Meet Albert, a fisherman of Brgy Bocana, Ilog in Negros Occidental. Once a fisherman’s helper, Albert received a boat of his own about a year ago through Peter Project 1. Today, Albert was able to buy a second hand motorcycle from the catch of his boat. Instead of walking 3 km from shore to market, Albert can...
We have always done our work quietly and simply, without desire for compensation nor recognition. But on April 26, 2014–about three and a half years after NVC was founded–on the same day, at about the same hour, NVC received two awards of recognition for its work: (1) the Signum La Sallianum Award from the University of...
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