PLDT wireless unit Smart Communications Inc. extends support to families from communities affected by the Taal Volcano eruption by providing cash-for-work assistance, materials to rebuild homes and early warning tools for selected communities. Smart coordinated with the social welfare office of the Laurel municipality to give cash to select families from Barangay Buso-Buso in exchange for cleaning and rehabilitation of their own homes. Laurel also got disaster warning tools in the form of two batingaws, bells or sirens used by communities as alarms. Most of the heads of families in this community were construction workers, fisherfolk, or farmers who raised livestock. Smart’s assistance to these communities is part of a broader community relief program of parent company PLDT and its affiliate companies under the Tulong Kapatid (Sibling Assistance) consortium.

Source: Manila Times February 21, 2020 18:27 UTC