The Negrense Volunteers for Change delivered about 10,000 Mingo meals to children in 11 communities in Victorias and Silay cities in Negros Occidental, that were hit by floods on New Year’s Day.
NVC president Millie Kilayko said “flood waters swept away their food, their memorabilia, and expectations of a happy new year morning. Instead, they spent the morning in evacuation centers and moved back home by noon (Friday) to begin the messy task of cleaning up and recouping what they could. “
The NVC moved from near-empty evacuation centers where some mothers lay in bed exhausted after the night’s debacle, then to homes where children welcomed the extra sustenance from Mingo Friday, January 1, she said.
The hungrier ones who could not wait for the Mingo meals to be turned into porridge took it straight from the pack, she said.
A Mingo meal is a nutritious instant complementary food made of rice, mongo (mung beans), and malunggay (moringa) produced by NVC.
Up until Friday evening, some villages were enveloped in darkness with electric power absent, Kilayko said.*