By Glazyl Y. Masculino
BACOLOD City – The Negrense Volunteers for Change Foundation Inc. (NVFC) has extended help to the medical frontliners here and in Negros Occidental by providing them with about 5,000 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) gowns, amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
The biggest number of gowns were delivered to Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital here, followed by Cadiz District Hospital, Teresita Lopez Jalandoni District Hospital in Silay City, and Riverside Medical Center here.
A hundred gowns were also distirbuted each to Bacolod Queen of Mercy Hospital, Bacolod Adventist Medical Center, and Metro Bacolod Hospital.
NVFC president Millie Kilayko, said that frontliners are risking their lives more than the ordinary people.
Thus, the group did their share by helping these frontliners protect themselves from getting infected while they are fighting the infectious disease to save the lives of others.
“We also have provided gowns to hospitals and health centers in several towns and cities across the island, all the way down south to Hinobaan’s Eleverio Decena Hospital,” Kilayko said.
NVFC, a non-government organization, established here in August 2010 by private citizens to harness the power of private citizens to create positive and lasting change in their communities, towns and cities, and our country, also provided 6,000 face shields to health workers.
Kilayko expressed her gratitude to all the donors and individuals who helped them reach their target to initially produce 2,000 PPEs.
“What started as a little project to be crafted in volunteers’ homes grew to a project which needed NVC’s organizational support,” she said.
Aside from PPEs, the group also donated food packs for hundreds of households and Mingo meals for the poor children.
As of April this year, the group delivered more than 266,000 Mingo meals to children across the country.
Mingo is a nutritious instant complementary food made of rice, mongo (mung beans), and malunggay (moringa) for children, primarily for infants and toddlers, but is also used for older children in areas of need.
If you want to know how to deliver love to help combat the COVID-19 crisis, log on to https://www.nvcfoundation-ph.org/covid-19/
