Beginning January 17, 2018, NVC is signing contracts with 193 Negros Occidental small farmers who till a total of 89 hectares of land in 6 different locations across the province. According to the terms of the contract, the farmers will grow–and NVC commits to purchase–a total of 56 tons of produce to fulfill NVC’s 2018...
Lanesra Foundation, a nonprofit whose objective is to help individuals become economically self-sufficient, made it a merry Christmas for 18 recipients in Negros Occidental by giving the gift of livelihood. Under NVC’s Project Joseph, Lanesra partnered with us to identify workers who could increase their income if they were provided a much-needed but unaffordable tool...
A new partnership with maritime healthcare company Halcyon Marine Healthcare Systems and Project Liwanag, a nonprofit that serves indigenous Aetas in Northern Luzon, has enabled the feeding of 37 Aeta children with daily Mingo Meals for one year. Mingo Meals landed in Capas, Tarlac on October 23, 2017 after a 45-minute ride on a four-wheel-drive...
NVC, which makes our own fiberglass Peter Project boats, was tapped by the Banca ng Buhay project to produce 38 fiberglass bancas to bring Filipino students in remote locations to school daily. The 38 boats ferry for free around 300 public school students in six barangays of Catbalogan City, Samar, to and from Antonio G. Tuazon National High...
On June 19, 2017, 200 children in Brgy. Tinampaan, Cadiz, Negros Island were enrolled in the Equis Zero Hunger program, of which NVC is a part. 200 Cadiz children to be fed for a year A hundred infants and toddlers will be given daily Mingo Meals for one year, while another hundred school-age children will be fed with rice...
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...
Students from Xavier University (Ateneo de Cagayan) have been going door to door to distribute Mingo Meals that have been donated by NVC donors. With too few and under-resourced evacuation centers able to take care of the displaced, majority of them have actually been staying with relatives and friends in nearby cities and municipalities. In Cagayan de Oro, relief...
“Don’t wait. Fill a plate.” That was the battle cry on March 24, 2017 when NVC Foundation formalized a partnership with Equis Shared Services to launch the group’s Zero Hunger program in its Makati City office. Equis Funds Group, headquartered in Singapore, is s a leading investor, developer, and operator of renewable energy in Asia. It not only...
See original article at: http://visayandailystar.com/2016/March/01/people.htm A Negros-based non government organization’s corporate partner bagged an award Saturday, acknowledging the non-profit group’s pivotal role in designing and implementing the program. British American Tobacco (Philippines) Limited’s Hope Floats for Yolanda Survivors received a silver trophy in the annual Anvil Awards at the Shangri-La Hotel in Makati City Saturday,...
On November 23, 2015, Metrobank Foundation signed a memorandum of agreement with NVC to provide assistance to Project Joseph and nutritional programs in Iloilo and Capiz. NVC President Millie Kilayko handed over NVC’s gift of an artisan mosaic eggshell piece to Aniceto Sobrepena, Metrobank Foundation President.
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