MVP Tulong Kapatid turns over houses for Typhoon Pablo survivors in Davao Oriental

BAGANGA, Davao Oriental, March 1, 2016 — MVP Tulong Kapatid (TK), the corporate social responsibility consortium of the companies led by businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan, in partnership with the provincial government of Davao Oriental formally turned over today 266 housing units to the families rendered homeless when Typhoon Pablo devastated the province in December 2012.
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PLDT installs fiber optic cables in Yolanda-hit Visayas

MANILA, Philippines, October 31, 2014 – Leading telecoms and multimedia provider PLDT has undertaken a P400-million program to install underground fiber optic cables in the areas hit by supertyphoon Yolanda in the Visayas region to strengthen the resiliency of its network and help revive the economies of the affected provinces.
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Fighting Poverty through Micro-Financing

As part of its flagship program to help end the cycle of poverty in the country, the PLDT-Smart Foundation partnered with ASA Philippines Foundation recently to help contractual employees of PLDT and Smart gain access to micro-financing.

With the launching of this PSF-ASA micro-finance project, recipients can now start borrowing capital at a very small interest to start their business and thus help them augment their income and take home pay, PLDT and Smart Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan said.

PLDT Smart Foundation gives P10 Million to fund new juvenile rehabilitation center at DLSU Dasmariñas

MANILA, Philippines, June 6, 2008 – The PLDT Smart Foundation, the philanthropic arm of PLDT and Smart, the country’s leading telecoms group, today announced a gift of P10 million to help fund a juvenile rehabilitation center on the campus of De La Salle University-Dasmariñas. The official groundbreaking of the center, to be called PLDT Smart Bahay Pagasa, was held last week.

The center will be the first of its kind in Luzon. La Salle has a similar juvenile rehabilitation center at its campus in Bacolod.

Asia-Pacific telecom companies team up for disaster recovery preparations

MANILA, Philippines, December 18, 2007 – Fourteen (14) members of the Pacific Partners, an alliance of major carriers in the Asia-Pacific region, have signed a memorandum of agreement (MOU) to ensure quick restoration of services in their networks during major cable system failures.