Friday, September 19, 2008

SMART Assists Displaced Families In Mindanao

Photo shows the relief operations organized by SMART and PNRC in Ozamis. Photo below shows the evacuees staying at Iligan City National High School availing of the Libreng Tawag service.

Leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) helped conduct a series of relief operations in Mindanao for displaced families from their homes as a result of armed hostilities.
In cooperation with the local chapters of the Philippine National Red Cross, SMART employee-volunteers distributed relief goods in Iligan and Ozamis Cities and Sarangani province.
In Ozamis City, relief goods were distributed to some 350 families staying at the Misamis Annex Elementary School and Maningco Elementary School. The relief operations held in Iligan Central School, Iligan City, benefited some 333 families. Relief packs were also distributed to affected families from the towns of Kiamba and Maasim, Sarangani Province.
Through the efforts of the PLDT-Smart Foundation, 2,150 families also received relief goods. The distribution was coursed through the Philippine Business for Social Progress and the Kadtuntaya Foundation, Inc. (KFI), which brought the relief goods to 14 schools serving as evacuation centers in the towns of Aleosan and Pikit, North Cotabato.
In addition to the relief operations, SMART also set up a Libreng Tawag station at the Iligan City National High School.
Almost 270,000 persons from the provinces of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Northen Mindanao and SOCSARGEN were displaced by the fighting between the military forces and armed groups, according to a report of the National Disaster Coordinating Council./MP

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