PLDT and Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) are sending at least 1,300 relief packs to flooded communities in Batangas, Occidental and Oriental Mindoro.

PLDT and Smart continue to provide small-scale farmers with access to sure market and capital funding. Partnering with social enterprise Cropital, Smart extends funding aid to rice growers across Luzon through the ‘Buy Local’ program.

PLDT’s wireless arm Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has teamed up with the Commission on Elections’ (COMELEC) official Voter Registration Information Campaign partner - Vote Pilipinas – to encourage more Filipinos to register for the 2022 elections. Spearheaded by the non-government organization Impact Hub Manila, Vote Pilipinas offers non-profit, non-partisan online and offline information about the upcoming elections.  

PLDT and its wireless arm Smart Communications, Inc. have partnered with the Philippine National Police in the construction of a Multi-Purpose Building at Camp BGen Oscar M Florendo, Parian, City of San Fernando in La Union, as part of PLDT and Smart's overall efforts to assist the needs of communities and public institutions like the PNP.

PLDT wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. kicked off the Philippine National Disaster Resilience Month with the launch of the #SafePH disaster preparedness online caravan.  

PLDT and Smart, together with the PLDT-Smart Foundation (PSF), turned over around 1,000 food packs to three municipalities in Batangas as aid to families displaced by Taal Volcano’s renewed activity.

Supporting the government’s call, PLDT and Smart have enabled the Local Government of Cebu City to bring vaccines to hard-to-reach communities.

PLDT and its wireless unit, Smart pick up the pace clamping down on internet links hosting online child abuse materials.

International Justice Mission (IJM) Philippines, PLDT Inc. (PLDT) and Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) commended the Philippine government and all partners in the anti-trafficking sector for retaining the country’s Tier 1 status in the 2021 Trafficking in Persons Report by the U.S. Department of State.

In its continuing commitment to enable Filipinos to find work or create their own businesses, the foundations of the companies led by Manuel V Pangilinan recently distributed 60 bicycles to disadvantaged residents of Quezon City. The initiative is part of Bike for Livelihood initiative, with the goal of teaming up with local government units (LGU) to facilitate the bicycle donations.