Meet Antoineth, a Haiyan evacuee from Leyte
Meet Antoineth, a little girl from Leyte. Antoineth and family rode the C-130 plane that carried evacuees from one of supertyphoon Haiyan’s worst-hit provinces to a refugee center in Manila. Camille...
View ArticleEvelyn and 125 Mingo Meals
Evelyn wishes to remain anonymous beyond her first name, but we’d like to share her story anyway. Evelyn works in a beauty salon in Manila. This morning, Mariel, one of NVC Manila’s members, visited...
View Article4,922 Mingo Meals!
Fab After 40 blogger Chinie Hidalgo Diaz sent us this heartwarming message, which came with the drawing above: Hi! Decided to raise funds on my own since I wanted pure Mingo Mission Funds. Hehe!...
View ArticleMingo drinking contest!
We are amazed at how volunteers can creatively inject fun into a catastrophic situation. Thanks to Bea Jarantilla and her troop who brought Mingo to Carles, and Manon Hernaez who donated Mingo, the...
View ArticleVicky hand carries a $10 donation from a cabbie
Vicky Torre has lived in the USA for a long time and to the Philippines last week for a break. She hired car service to take her to the airport and board her flight home. As she pulled out money to...
View ArticleFrom Dianna’s Leyte diary
Excerpts from the Leyte Diary of Dianna Callejo Cruz, our Mingo Mission volunteer, who went to Leyte after supertyphoon Haiyan for Mingo Missions. Getting to Cebu, from the DFC Warehouse, via a taxi,...
View ArticleThe baby who survived typhoon Yolanda
Meet Hayler Macahali of Brgy Sta. Cruz in Tanauan, Leyte. When super typhoon Yolanda hit Leyte, Hayler fell from the second floor of the barangay hall where his family had been evacuated, right into...
View ArticleA volunteer from Germany
Julian, a volunteer from Germany, joined the #bayanichallenge in Carles, Iloilo on May 23 and 24, 2014 and donates funds for children’s vitamins, Mingo Meals, and water for the benefit 2,000 local...
View ArticleRenae and Julien: travelers turned volunteers
Meet Renae Saxby and Julien Chavinier, travelers from Australia and France, respectively. They’ve been traveling across Asia and discovering the wonders of this part of the world. While in El Nido,...
View ArticleA helper all the way from California
Master Chef: Clint Borrill of Balsam Brands, a leading online retail company based in the US, came to Negros to see how the business can partner with NVC to benefit the Philippines. While in town, he...
View ArticleMore Mingo for Hinoba-an and Ilog in Negros Occidental
Congresswoman Mercedes Alvarez of the 6th District in Negros Occidental shared her experience of bringing Mingo to different barangays in her area. “Meal time with the day care children of Brgys 1...
View Article15-year-old Chris cooks up a new way to volunteer
There are truly 1,001 ways to volunteer! 15-year-old Chris baked Mingo corn muffins for three straight, hot summer days so they could be given away as samples at Asia’s Ethnic Food & Ingredients...
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