NVC’s Project Joseph was envisioned to provide skilled persons with a single tool or piece of equipment that they need to jumpstart them into a better future for their families. That’s how John Rell Flores began to earn better when he received his pedicab in August 2017 through the project. But John did something better....
More than a dozen artisans working more than a thousand man hours: that’s what it took the men and women of our Artisans of Hope livelihood workshop to wrap around a pillar of Ayala Capitol Central which opened on December 15, 2018 in Bacolod City. Even as the piece reflects the intertwining lives and tales...
Gary is our happy pill. Gary is a Peter Project fisherman from Punta Taytay, Negros Occidental. After he received his motorized fishing boat two years ago, it has been constant change around him. Just a few months after his boat was turned over, Gary began to add a half concrete extension to his rather dilapidated...
Previously unable to find regular work, Edgar and his wife live with his in-laws, using the adjoining little sari-sari store as bedroom by night and living room by day. Because he now earns a good living in our Artisans of Hope livelihood workshop, Edgar is able to make a contribution to the family income. Thanks...
Jon Jon is a senior high school student. In 2018, he joined our Artisans of Hope livelihood workshop in search of a summer job. From his first pay doing mosaic art, he was able to buy footwear for his whole family. Over the entire summer, he saved enough to fund his school expenses—including his uniform...
We received happy news that Lilang Ala, a widow with 8 children and an evacuee from Marawi City, has been busy churning out school uniforms using the sewing machine she received through a Project Joseph donor from another part of the world. She is among those to whom we turned over sewing machines during our...
These blue and white fishing boats may not look like the familiar yellow boats of NVC, but they are Peter Project boats nonetheless. A donor who wishes to remain anonymous donated 11 boats to fishermen’s helpers in the coastal community of Punta Taytay, Bacolod City. The boats are all named after the different titles attributed...
Jolly, a 50-year-old fisherman, in Toboso, Negros Occidental, fished daily on a tiny boat that could only go on shallow waters. On good days, the few pieces he caught would feed his family of six and be sold for their other needs. On bad days, he climbed the coconut tree beside his house and picked...
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