Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many Filipinos, particularly adolescents and young adults, continue to struggle with mental health. This becomes evident with the alarming rise of suicide incidents in General Santos (GenSan) City. To help address this, the City Mayor’s Office, through its Youth Affairs and Development Office (YADO) and the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK), launched Project Hinabi, a youth-led community-based mental health initiative.

As communities start to recover from the ravages of COVID-19, PLDT-Smart Foundation (PSF) carries on providing relief packs to disadvantaged sectors, this time in Parañaque City.

In support of the 2021 Brigada Eskwela Program of the Department of Education (DepEd), PLDT-Smart Foundation (PSF) recently turned over pocket WiFi devices and load cards to various schools across the country, providing reliable connectivity to teachers and school administrators as they usher in the beginning of another schoolyear.

PLDT and wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) together with the PLDT-Smart Foundation (PSF) have extended 3,800 packs of relief aid to provinces in northern Luzon that have felt the wrath of Tropical Cyclone Maring. This is the biggest tropical storm aid that the Group has deployed in the time of the coronavirus pandemic.

Filipino athletes are actively taking part in meaningful conversations on TikTok through the Better Today program, powered by PLDT, Inc., (PLDT) its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) and the MVP Sports Foundation (MVPSF).

Private organizations are teaming up to help solve undernourishment among children in the Philippines. A World Bank report pointed out that undernutrition has long been a serious problem in the country. The report bared that one in three Filipino children under five are small in size for their age.

Football for Humanity and sports education partner Coaches Across Continents kick-off a series of online training sessions for thirty coaches participating in the community football mobilization program under the #StopOSAEC (Online Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children) advocacy headed by Football for Humanity (FFH) and Advocacy Partners Asia Inc (APAI). The course promotes a structured curriculum to enhance FFH coaches' knowledge and skills necessary for coaching vulnerable children. These coaches will be offering free fun football sessions to communities where children are at risk of OSAEC, which is a violation under Article 5 of Republic Act No. 7610 (An Act Providing for Stronger Deterrence and Special Protection Against Child Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination, And for Other Purposes)

PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. continue to empower small-holder farmers in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. This holds true for some 300 beneficiary families who are set to receive food packages as part of the waste management program launched by the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) to mark its 50th anniversary.

PLDT and Smart scale up their mental health initiatives online, linking up with more advocacy groups, organizations, and local government units (LGUs).