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PLDT, Smart and PLDT-Smart Foundation, together with the companies and foundations led by Manuel V Pangilinan bring much needed aid to drought-hit Mansalay.Beneath the sky over Oriental Mindoro, dry farmlands have experienced limited irrigation in recent months. Five towns in Oriental and Occidental Mindoro, including Mansalay, were placed under a state of calamity due to El Niño.
Present during the turnover of relief were Vice Mayor Shernan Gamol, Municipal Administrator Engr. Alexis Diama, and Ruel Quinzon, Consultant for Political Affairs from the Office of the Vice Governor of Oriental Mindoro. “Our crops were a month shy from harvest season. Now all gone,” said Luciminda Gervas, 58, who manages the family farm, together with her husband, Felicisimo, 74.
Estela, Ricson, Luciminda, and Felicisimo are just few of thousands of farmers, whose lives have drastically changed in drought-hit Mansalay.“Heeding the call for assistance, PLDT and Smart rallied the organizations under the leadership of our Chairman Manuel V Pangilinan to come together, through Tulong Kapatid, to bring much needed aid so that no farmer is left behind,” said Cathy Yap-Yang, PLDT and Smart FVP and Head of Group Corporate Communications.
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