Championing mental wellness to more communities, PLDT and Smart, through the Better Today program, collaborated with the local government unit (LGU) of Lingayen, raising youth awareness on mental health.

Over 6,000 COVID-19 frontliners across Visayas and Mindanao have received aid from PLDT, Inc. and Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) and its social outreach arm PLDT-Smart Foundation, Inc. (PSF).

Smart, together with the Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Training Institute (DA-ATI), is modernizing agriculture through the Digital Farmers Program or DFP. The ladderized capacity-building program aims to enable smallholder farmers to use the internet and different mobile technologies to improve their livelihood.

Mobile connectivity is still king when it comes to keeping connections alive between overseas Filipino workers (OFW) and their families back home. According to a recent study done by PLDT Global Corporation, nine out of ten OFWs based in the Middle East send mobile load to their families back home to stay connected. PLDT Global is the international arm of the Philippines’ largest fully integrated telco PLDT.

PLDT and Smart, through its Better Today program, have reinforced their commitment to promoting mental health and wellness through sports. With some of the country’s top athletes and community sports advocates, PLDT and Smart launched “Power Move Project”, a conversations series on sports and mental resilience. To date, the series has garnered at least 456,000 views.

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More local government units are teaming up with PLDT and Smart, mobilizing the Filipino youth to champion mental wellness in the Philippines.

Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) is giving away more than two million pesos in prizes to lucky students who will win in the Smart ‘Balik Tuition Promo 2’, an electronic raffle where students using Smart and TNT prepaid SIMs can take home cash, gadgets, and other e-learning tools.

Together with the Provincial Government of La Union and mental health advocate Joy Ortega, PLDT and Smart reinforce their commitment to creating safe spaces online for the youth to discuss mental health through the monthly conversations series entitled, “Kamusta Ka, eLyU?”. With two episodes aired, the series has garnered over 10,000 views and counting.

Reaching out to sick children and their caregivers, the PLDT-Smart Foundation (PSF) donated food, connectivity tools, and other essential items to Bahay Aruga, a halfway house for pediatric cancer patients.