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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.

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.