Building a home of storytellers through PLDT and Smart’s mental health initiative
A 16-year-old incoming senior high school, a mental health survivor, an online ESL teacher and a K-pop fan. They are the four winners of PLDT and Smart’s Better Today Time Capsule Project, a mental health initiative that focuses on art as a form of catharsis.
PLDT, Smart urge DoJ to join global fight vs online child abuse, human trafficking
PLDT and its wireless arm Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) are broadening their engagement with stakeholders, ramping up their global fight against online child abuse and human trafficking. The two companies strengthened their support to the Department of Justice in collaborating and providing the government agency timely information in tracking perpetrators at the community level.
PLDT, Smart enable vaccine rollout in Davao with connectivity support
PLDT and its wireless arm Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) are working closely with local government units (LGUs) in Davao to provide connectivity support to their on-going vaccine rollout.
MVP group provides bikes to indigent Pasiguenos, PNP contact tracers
In a bid to help people commute to work safely or make a living in a pandemic, the foundations of the companies led by Manuel V Pangilinan have initially given away 70 bicycles to indigents in Pasig and 50 to government contract tracers. The donations under its Bike for Livelihood initiative were made in celebration of the World Bicycle Day on June 3, as declared by the United Nations.
PLDT, Smart activate personnel, ready emergency equipment in Luzon for TS Dante
PLDT and Smart have activated emergency response personnel and have prepared critical equipment as TS Dante continues to barrel towards mainland Luzon.
Smart teams up with Baliuag LGU, powers student connectivity with Smart Bro
PLDT's wireless unit Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has partnered with the local government of Baliuag in Bulacan for the connectivity needs of their students.
PLDT, Smart deploy quick response teams, preposition assets for TS Dante
PLDT and Smart have deployed quick response teams as Tropical Storm Dante threatens to make landfall over Eastern Samar or Leyte.
From community pantry to plant-ry, PLDT, Smart support food security
In a bid to sustain the countrywide community pantry effort, PLDT and its wireless unit Smart Communications have begun providing planting kits to communities in the National Capital Region, supporting thousands more families amid the pandemic.
PLDT, Smart begin blocking on content level, upping war vs online child abuse
The war against online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC) kicked up a notch, as PLDT and Smart start to block on the more difficult content-level.