How did it all begin? Very informally, with one woman, Margaretha Gloor, who just decided to follow her sense of curiosity about the Philippines and its people. She described MVP's beginning in an article she wrote in 1988. Here is Margaretha?s story: As a newcomer to any country the first thing one wants to know is its people ? who they are, where they come from and so forth, and especially in the case of the Filipinos whose races are so varied that one can see a multitude of blood-lines crisscrossing the archipelago and always ending up in a new puzzle.