Original article: https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/06/19/group-prepares-mingo-meals-for-malnourished-children/? By Glazyl Masculino BACOLOD CITY –The Negrense Volunteers for Change (NVC) Foundation recently launched its campaign here to provide 10 million Mingo meals to undernourished children. Mario Capanzana, director of Food and Nutrition Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), said they partnered with NVC in campaign to fight...
Where there are hungry children in the Philippines, there’s no mountain high enough, no valley low enough, no river wide enough to keep Mingo from getting to empty stomachs to nourish and sustain. But beginning February 17, 2019, NVC can do its job a lot faster with the inauguration of its food shuttle, Mingoy. It’s...
If you gave or received a card like this one, know NVC has started–with proceeds from the sales–to enroll 40 children in NVC’s Mingo Meals nutrition program that will provide them with daily access to this instant meal made of rice, mongo and malunggay for six months. The children come from an impoverished shoreline village...
Read original article at: http://opinion.inquirer.net/112387/hungry-stunted-children Jonathan Oya has become the face of hunger and child malnutrition in the country. When the Subanen boy died in February of severe malnutrition in the family home in a remote village in Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur, he weighed a mere 15 kilograms — ideal for a 4-year-old. He was...
See original article at: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/981000/boys-death-gives-life-to-nutrion-programs-in-zambo-sur-village LABANGAN, Zamboanga del Sur — The death of a 12-year-old boy of hunger had given life to efforts to save other children in an impoverished community here and elsewhere from the silent killer known as malnutrition. The death of Jonathan Oya last Feb. 14 at home in the village of...
While NVC runs its own Mingo Meals nutrition program, Mingo is also used by other foundations and groups for their own feeding activities because of Mingo’s convenience, low cost, and effectiveness. Recently, we received a donation of Php 25,000 with instructions to send 5,000 sachets of Mingo Choco to Rise Above Foundation Cebu. The group is using the donation to...
This article by NVC President Millie Kilayko was published in Rappler.com on July 10, 2016 See original article at: http://www.rappler.com/move-ph/issues/hunger/139149-bukidnon-malnutrition-mingo-meal A November 29, 2015 article in Rappler triggered our non-profit foundation’s journey to the mountains half a year later. It was a story written by Fritzie Rodriguez, on the children of Bukidnon who survived on...
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