MANILA, Philippines — Telecommunications and digital services provider PLDT Inc. is making it easier for its customers to help the country’s health workers and frontliners.
PLDT-Smart Foundation (PSF) and Smart Communications Inc. have launched a text-to-donate drive for COVID-19 frontliners, which will enable Smart, TNT and Sun customers to contribute using their prepaid load or donations charged to their postpaid account.
“By introducing this convenient text-to-donate platform, PSF and Smart are making it so much easier for millions of its customers across the Philippines to unite for a good cause and contribute in their own little way – just by sending a simple text message,” Smart said.
Smart said subscribers may donate in the amounts of P10, P25, P50, P100 and P500.
To donate, Smart, TNT, and Sun subscribers will have to text DONATE<Space><Amount> and send to 3456.
Smart said customers would get a text notification for successful donations. Donations will be deducted from their load if they are a prepaid subscriber, or will be posted on their next monthly bill if they are a postpaid customer.
Proceeds from the donation drive which will run up to July 16 will be used in mobilizing relief and response efforts to help health workers, frontliners, hospitals and poor communities affected by the pandemic.
PLDT and Smart have also extended communications assistance to the Department of Health, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine General Hospital, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, and Department of Transportation to provide for the connectivity of their frontliners.
Free and reliable 24/7 Smart WiFi have also been activated and deployed in facilities for COVID-19 patients, as well as in campuses that are housing frontliners.