With a surge in cases and lockdowns in place, the PLDT-Smart Foundation, PLDT group’s corporate social responsibility arm, has reached out to far-flung communities to provide aid, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 

She called, they came, they connected.

Gabay Guro, the flagship education program of PLDT-Smart Foundation, recently turned over the Chery Tiggo 2 Grand Prize from Chery Auto Philippines to 36-year-old Teacher Mary Ann from Laguna. She was a first-time attendee of Gabay Guro’s first-ever virtual Grand Gathering last October 2020.

PLDT and Smart have just launched Time Capsule Project, a virtual art festival on mental health and wellness under its Better Today program.

PLDT and Smart Communications, Inc., together with the PLDT-Smart Foundation (PSF), have prepared relief packs for families in Batangas that may be affected by the unrest of Taal Volcano.

Here are some of the ways you can show support to our medical frontliners, with the help of PayMaya.

As more families and communities struggle through the long drawn-out COVID-19 pandemic, PLDT and the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) widen their outreach to indigent communities through the Cebu Caritas, Inc (CCI) Office. As part of the sustainable livelihood program supported by PLDT and PBSP, hygiene kits were distributed at the Caritas Kindness Station in Cebu.

The companies and employees of the MVP group have come together to support the countrywide movement of community pantries. Aid in the form of rice, produce, and other dried goods were mobilized by the group to initially benefit over 8,000 individuals and their families through select pantries that have been set-up across Metro Manila.

Forging ahead on efforts to promote sustainability, PLDT group fortifies its partnership with the Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF), in support of indigenous communities.

PLDT Chairman Manny V Pangilinan gives back to the Ateneo community by helping build the Fr. Roque Ferriols SJ Suscipe Fund, which aims to defray expenses relating to the care of senior and infirm Jesuits, more fondly known as the “Lolo Jesuits.”