{"id":8110,"date":"2018-08-27T02:03:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T02:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/?p=8110"},"modified":"2018-08-27T02:03:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T02:03:59","slug":"smart-psf-akfi-lead-alay-sa-boracay-gift-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/smart-psf-akfi-lead-alay-sa-boracay-gift-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart, PSF, AKFI lead \u2018Alay sa Boracay\u2019 gift-giving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smart, PSF, AKFI lead \u2018Alay sa Boracay\u2019 gift-giving<\/strong>
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\nPSF president Esther Santos (right) hands out a package to a Boracay resident during the relief distribution program. <\/em>
\n[23 August 2018<\/strong>] Residents on Boracay Island recently received relief assistance at a gift-giving activity conducted by Smart Communications, PLDT-Smart Foundation (PSF) and Alagang Kapatid Foundation Inc. (AKFI)
\nInitiated by Smart\u2019s sales and distribution group, \u201cAlay sa Boracay\u201d held at One Central provided locals and members of the Ati community with supplies and means to augment their livelihood.
\nThe program is part of Smart\u2019s ongoing support for load retailers and subscribers who have been affected by Boracay\u2019s closure to tourism activities. The activity follows the financial assistance Smart has given to six public schools as part of its participation to the Brigada Eskwela initiative on the island.
\n\u201cWe have a lot of retailers and subscribers here in Boracay. This activity is our way of giving back to them, to the members of the community,\u201d said Smart distributor sales manager Mark Jason Palo.
\n\u201cIn times of success and difficulties, we\u2019ve always supported our subscribers and retailers, who have also been there for us all these years,\u201d said Ediner Tinio, also a distributor sales manager at Smart. \u201cOur network services here on Boracay Island are always available to serve our subscribers and retailers,\u201d he added.
\nPSF president Esther Santos stressed the urgency of the need to address the livelihood concerns of the Boracay residents. \u201cWe understand the plight of the local community, that\u2019s why we\u2019re more than willing to lend a helping hand,\u201d Santos said, adding that the program was part of the activities lined up for the birthday of PLDT-Smart chair and chief executive officer Manuel V. Pangilinan.
\nLoad retailers in Boracay each received a bag of grocery items containing rice, canned goods, noodles, personal hygiene products, and medicines; while lucky attendees won raffle prizes such as mobile load wallets, phones, Smart Bro Home Pocket Wi-Fis, and portable speakers.
\nKok\u2019s, Smart\u2019s distributor for Aklan, Antique, Capiz and Boracay, also offered free international calls to retailers who had relatives abroad.
\nSchoolchildren, for their part, received school supplies, shirts, and toys from AKFI and PSF, which also distributed hygiene kits to their parents.
\nThe activity was made possible through the generosity of the following partners: Smart regional and provincial distributors One World and Kok\u2019s; Super 8 Grocery Warehouse, Ledi Supermart, Iloilo Talk Active Corp., Unilever, Zest-o Corp., Nissin Payless and Century Tuna.
\n\u201cWe thank our partners for their generous support. This is our way of giving back to our subscribers and retailers, who are our trade allies here on the island,\u201d said Smart Visayas-Mindanao public affairs head Maria Jane Paredes.
\nFatima Tamboon, a 31-year-old Ati tribe member and a mother of two, was thankful for the assistance distributed to them. \u201cMalaking tulong po ito para sa aking mga anak at pamilya. Nagpapasalamat po kami dahil hindi ninyo kami pinabayaan (This is a big help for my children and family. Thank you because you\u2019ve never neglected us),\u201d she said.
\nTamboon\u2019s sari-sari (small variety) store business suffered major losses following Boracay\u2019s shutdown. However, she remains hopeful and awaits the reopening of the island to travelers this October.
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\nFatima Tamboon is one of the recipients of grocery items during the gift-giving activity led by Smart and PSF on Boracay.
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Smart, PSF, AKFI lead \u2018Alay sa Boracay\u2019 gift-giving PSF president Esther Santos (right) hands out a package to a Boracay resident during the relief distribution program. [23 August 2018] Residents on Boracay Island recently received relief assistance at a gift-giving activity conducted by Smart Communications, PLDT-Smart Foundation (PSF) and Alagang Kapatid Foundation Inc. (AKFI) Initiated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-techbeatcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8116,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions\/8116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techbeatph.com\/wproot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}