Bacolod Tay Tung High School Goes on Board Mingoy the Food Shuttle
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Bacolod Tay Tung High School Goes on Board Mingoy the Food Shuttle

Bacolod Tay Tung High school students, faculty, and staff recently took four joy rides on Mingoy the Food Shuttle. The journeys fed almost 1,000 hungry stomachs through a concert organized by the whole Tay Tung community. Tay Tung started its giving journey with NVC by organizing the Harmony for Marawi concert in 2017 to bring...

Tay Tung High School students raise P100,000 for Marawi
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Tay Tung High School students raise P100,000 for Marawi

On the day that Philippine government announced the end of combat operations in Marawi, we received support to help us bring fresh hope to those whose lives were affected by the siege and will soon return to their battle-ridden hometown. Today, students of  Bacolod Tay Tung High School turned over to NVC Foundation P100,000, which...

October 23, 2017December 8, 2018by
NVC’s fiberglass boats ferry far-flung teens to school
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NVC’s fiberglass boats ferry far-flung teens to school

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...

ADB affirms Mingo’s effectivity in a Philippine project
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ADB affirms Mingo’s effectivity in a Philippine project

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...

LoveBags: It ain’t over yet!
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LoveBags: It ain’t over yet!

When we delivered 1,423 LoveBags to our two target indigenous peoples’ villages as classes commenced in June, we thought the drive was over. At least for this school year. But donations continued to come in, and so we set off to identify a new set of kids. Today, we handed over 51 LoveBags with a...

Hinobaan mountain schoolhouse completed
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Hinobaan mountain schoolhouse completed

Last March 2017, NVC kicked off the construction of a preschool building and playground for children of the indigenous people in Sitio Bugtong Lubi, Hinobaan, Negros Island. Sitio Bugtong Lubi is a mountain community that is extremely marginalized due to its remote location. Below is the old school that children in the community attended. The two-classroom building...

1,423 LoveBags Delivered
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1,423 LoveBags Delivered

As of June 20, 2017, all 1,423 donated LoveBags for School Kids have been delivered to children living in the mountains of Bukidnon, Mindanao and Himamaylan, Negros Island who have very limited access to school supplies. NVC identified 852 recipients from the indigenous Tala-andig tribe in Bukidnon, Mindanao, and 571 recipients from the Maghat, Bukidnon, and Ituman tribes located...

Life’s lessons, as taught by third graders
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Life’s lessons, as taught by third graders

It was an invitation we simply couldn’t refuse. Andro Barrientos, a Grade 3 student at The Beacon School, had been persistently asking his mom Reggie and teacher Karen David to feature NVC in their Social Studies lesson on “Organizations and How They Can Help Solve Social Problems.”   NVC volunteer Josephine Gonzalez Ruiz spoke to...

October 23, 2014January 7, 2019by