More houses from Smart-PLDT
PLDT Community Relations head Evelyn
del Rosario, SMART Public Affairs
Senior Manager for VisMin Maria Jane
Paredes and Iloilo City Councilor Joe
Espinosa III.
Rosalinda Alberte and her family is one of the beneficiaries when PLDT-SMART Amazing Gawad Kalinga (GK) Village in Sooc, Arevalo awarded 30 more houses recently.
Pink pepper learned that the additional houses were part of the 100 that SMART and the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company. (PLDT) committed. The beneficiaries were the former street children and their families
SMART also provides livelihood to the resident-beneficiaries. They are basic dressmaking training for women and terra cotta arts training for selected children. The latter is being conducted by artist PG Zoluaga
Rosalinda Alberte and her family with
their new home in the PLDT-SMART
Amazing GK Village in Sooc.
Atty. Maria Jane Paredes, SMART Public Affairs manager for Visayas and Mindanao, said that after the homes are completed, they also give attention to the resident-beneficiaries' livelihood. Thus, PLDT and SMART are working with Gawad Kalinga to come up with programs that could provide a source of income for the residents.
The PLDT-SMART Amazing GK Village in the Arevalo District is the sixth GK Village adopted by PLDT and SMART. The other PLDT-SMART GK Villages are located in Baseco Compound, Tondo, Manila; Brgy. Banglos, General Nakar, Quezon; Camp Abubakar, Barira, Maguindanao; Brgy. Budlaan, Cebu City; Fort Magasaysay, Laur, Nueva Ecija; and St. Bernard, Southern Leyte.