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...
Original story at: http://www.mb.com.ph/mb-readers-write-a-happy-ending-to-a-fishermans-story/ by Pinky Concha – Colmenares A happy ending has been written by several good people, all strangers, to the story of a poor fisherman struggling with many unfortunate events. Most of the “writers of the happy ending” are Manila Bulletin readers who were touched by the story of Jonathan Buenafe, 47, a...
For the second year in a row, Google partnered with NVC Foundation for its Google Reach program, which lets Google staff from their offices all over the world to share their time and talent with NGOs in developing countries. From June 24 to July 7, 2015, coming all the way from the United States, Ireland, Switzerland, and Canada, Cece Choi,...
Original story at: http://www.mb.com.ph/a-fishermans-tale-my-job-is-to-make-my-kids-survive/ by Pinky Concha – Colmenares When does despair come to a father of three, two of them with special needs, whose wife had left to look for a job five years ago and did not come back; whose house had been destroyed by deterioration and poverty; and whose motorized banca, donated by...
The Project Joseph recipients of sewing machines in Brgy. Gargato, Hinigaran, Negros Occidental, received a purchase order worth over Php 4,000 from Vicmik Enterprises for 216 cloth bags. It is hoped that this will be the first of a continuing line of orders. Vicmik Enterprises is a Bacolod-based garments company that manufactures children’s clothing. It...
In February 2013, when the first beneficiaries of the Peter Project in Hinigaran, Negros Occidental, started to fish, they shared the fruits of their work with the Church. When the catch turned low during the cooler months, starting November and up till now, February 2014, they turned into boat makers–becoming one of our boat suppliers for Yolanda-hit fishermen elsewhere. Today, they...
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