{"id":39917,"date":"2020-09-04T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=39917"},"modified":"2020-09-04T14:34:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:34:03","slug":"gabay-guro-ties-up-with-paymaya-to-provide-financial-account-for-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2020\/09\/04\/gabay-guro-ties-up-with-paymaya-to-provide-financial-account-for-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabay Guro ties up with PayMaya to provide financial account for teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Teachers all around the country will soon have easier access to a financial account and learning resources in one app as Gabay Guro, the flagship advocacy program for teachers of the PLDT-Smart Foundation, partners with PayMaya for its super app for teachers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through the Gabay Guro app, teachers can soon easily sign up for a PayMaya account which they can use for various digital financial transactions such as paying for online and in-store purchases, sending money, paying bills, buying load, and paying government fees, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will complement the existing features of the app, which provides them access to research materials, community-wide articles, rewards, as well as online lessons to help improve their teaching skills in the new normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cProviding teachers a PayMaya account within the Gabay Guro app will help enrich the resources available to them, especially as they adapt to our new normal which is increasingly digital. Combined with various learning and other resources available within the app, we are confident that this new platform can help improve their day-to-day teaching lives,&#8221; said\u00a0Gabay Guro Chairperson Chaye Cabal-Revilla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On top of these features, the app&nbsp;will also offer other capabilities such as the ability to&nbsp;receive&nbsp;badges that can be converted into&nbsp;MVP Rewards,&nbsp;availing of promos and training sessions from Gabay Guro partners and mentors, and access to livelihood&nbsp;programs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soon, they can also&nbsp;receive cash assistance, incentives, and loans designed for educators&nbsp;and even get&nbsp;additional&nbsp;livelihood opportunities in the e-commerce space through their PayMaya account within the Gabay Guro app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For his part,\u00a0PayMaya\u00a0Founder and CEO Orlando Vea said:\u00a0\u201cHaving a digital financial account will help complement the wealth of resources for teachers that will be available in the\u00a0app.\u00a0As we all transition to digital, it\u2019s important that we empower our teachers with the right tools and resources so that they are able\u00a0carry out\u00a0their work well, for the sake of all Filipino\u00a0youth\u00a0everywhere\u201d added Mr. Vea.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Department of Education has always acknowledged the Gabay Guro program and the PLDT Group as an important partner of the education sector. We\u2019re happy that the Gabay Guro app, together with PayMaya, will provide our teachers with a holistic platform that will empower and help them thrive in the new normal,\u201d added Department of Education Undersecretary Tonisito Umali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Enabling teachers with digital financial accounts and capabilities is just the latest way that&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;is empowering the education sector.&nbsp;To date, it has&nbsp;enabled&nbsp;over 50 educational institutions all&nbsp;over&nbsp;the country with cashless payments acceptance, allowing&nbsp;schools&nbsp;to conveniently accept tuition payments from parents at the comfort of their homes.&nbsp;At the same time, this mode of payment&nbsp;helps&nbsp;keep school personnel safe by eliminating risks of cash handling&nbsp;in light of&nbsp;the current public health situation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These efforts are in response to the Department of Education\u2019s directive to implement blended learning that utilizes both online and in-person modalities for education, where students are encouraged to utilize online classes, printed modules, and educational TV and radio broadcast as main learning channels this school year.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schools enabled by&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;with&nbsp;end-to-end digital payment solutions such as&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;Checkout online payment gateway and the&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;One all-in-one Point of Sale (POS) device&nbsp;include&nbsp;major learning institutions such as the University of the Philippines, the Ateneo De Davao University (ADDU),&nbsp;La Salle Green Hills,&nbsp;Don Bosco Technical Institute of Makati Inc. (DBTI-MAKATI), Nord Anglia International School Manila (NAIS Manila), Malayan Colleges Mindanao (MCM), and University of Immaculate Conception (UIC), among others.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aside from these digital payment innovations,&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;has&nbsp;also&nbsp;rolled out cashless payment ecosystems starting with the&nbsp;PayMaya-powered student ID card in&nbsp;schools&nbsp;including University of the Philippines-Diliman, LPU-Batangas, La Salle Green Hills, and STI, among many others. Students can easily link the&nbsp;PayMaya-powered student ID card to their&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;account and maximize for payment transactions even outside the campus at&nbsp;Bancnet-powered payment terminals and ATMs nationwide.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PayMaya&nbsp;is the only end-to-end digital payments ecosystem enabler in the Philippines, with platforms and services that cut across consumers, merchants, and government. Aside from providing payments acceptance for the largest e-Commerce, food, retail and gas merchants in the Philippines,&nbsp;PayMaya&nbsp;enables national and social services agencies, as well as local government units, with digital payments and disbursement services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through its app and wallet,\u00a0PayMaya\u00a0 provides millions of Filipinos with the fastest way to own a financial account with over 40,000 Add Money touchpoints nationwide, more than double the total number of traditional bank branches in the Philippines combined. Its Smart Padala by\u00a0PayMaya\u00a0network of over 30,000 partner touchpoints nationwide serves as last mile digital financial hubs in communities, providing the unbanked and underserved with access to services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To know more about\u00a0PayMaya&#8217;s\u00a0products and services, visit\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/word-edit.officeapps.live.com\/we\/www.PayMaya.com\">www.PayMaya.com<\/a>\u00a0or follow @PayMayaOfficial on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the Gabay Guro app, teachers can soon easily sign up for a PayMaya account which they can use for various digital financial transactions such as paying for online and in-store purchases, sending money, paying bills, buying load, and paying government fees, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3682,4331],"class_list":["post-39917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-paymaya","tag-paymaya-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}