Leading telecommunications and digital services provider PLDT’s subsidiary PLDT Global Corporation (PGC) is expanding its partnership with international airtime remittance hub Tranglo.

Founded in 2008, Tranglo is a secure technology platform that enables payment service providers and businesses to perform cross-border payouts, prepaid reloads and digital conveniences. Since 2011, Tranglo has been an active partner of PGC. In 2013, the Malaysia-based remittance company also teamed up with Smart to boost aid for survivors of Typhoon Yolanda.   

Sixteen-year-old Iva Jamelarin, a student-achiever from Iloilo, wrote a poem, presented it in class, and uploaded the recording on her Facebook account. Little did she know that this would go viral on the internet and change her family’s life.

“I did not expect that kind of reception with my spoken word performance. I was just thankful that I was able to express my feelings and gratitude towards my mother,” Jamelarin said in Filipino.

Her mother, Eva Jamelarin, is an overseas Filipino working in Hong Kong.