{"id":48830,"date":"2022-04-18T12:17:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T04:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=48830"},"modified":"2022-04-18T12:17:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T04:17:07","slug":"ppcrv-partners-with-smart-in-nationwide-call-for-youth-poll-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2022\/04\/18\/ppcrv-partners-with-smart-in-nationwide-call-for-youth-poll-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"PPCRV partners with Smart in nationwide call for youth poll volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) partnered with PLDT mobile arm Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) for its aim to mobilize youth volunteers to serve as poll watchers in the upcoming national elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An accredited citizens\u2019 arm of the Commission on Elections,&nbsp;PPCRV&nbsp;is a national parish-based political but non-partisan lay movement that promotes clean, honest, accurate, meaningful, and peaceful elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of their partnership, Smart is providing logistical support for&nbsp;PPCRV&nbsp;to engage and empower more youth volunteers across the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To help with the connectivity needs of the organization, Smart has also set up a dedicated mobile hotline for&nbsp;PPCRV&nbsp;at 09287008222. Smart has also turned over mobile phones and committed monthly prepaid load assistance to the election watchdog as well as donated over 390,000 shirts, which will serve as the official uniform of&nbsp;PPCRV&nbsp;volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Smart has been an invaluable partner to&nbsp;PPCRV&nbsp;through the years. Once again, Smart stands side by side with&nbsp;PPCRV&nbsp;to ensure Clean, Honest, Accurate, Meaningful and Peaceful elections. Our volunteers nationwide are truly grateful for your support,&#8221; said Myla Villanueva,&nbsp;PPCRV&nbsp;Chair.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smart\u2019s support for&nbsp;PPCRV&nbsp;is in line with its various efforts to inspire the Filipino youth to live their passion with purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is an honor for Smart to support&nbsp;PPCRV&nbsp;in its noble mission to promote clean and peaceful elections. We believe in the critical role of poll volunteers &#8211; especially the youth &#8211; in fulfilling this mission, and we hope that through this collaboration, we would be able to encourage more young Filipinos to direct their passion into positive action and simply live smart and vote smart,\u201d said Jane J.&nbsp;Basas, SVP and Head of Consumer Wireless Business at Smart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interested volunteers may directly coordinate with the&nbsp;PPCRV&nbsp;coordinator in their parish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aside from poll watching at precincts,&nbsp;PPCRV&nbsp;volunteers may also express their preference in other assignments, including Voter&#8217;s Education; Voters&#8217; List Cleansing and Verification; Voters&#8217; Assistance Desk; Election Monitoring System Encoders;&nbsp;Logistics for Food and Supplies; and Transportation and Communications, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smart&#8217;s partnership with&nbsp;PPCRV&nbsp;is also part of its commitment to help the country attain the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals particularly UNSDG 16, which calls for strong institutions. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To know more about&nbsp;PPCRV&nbsp;and its mission, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppcrv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.ppcrv.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their partnership, Smart is providing logistical support for\u00a0PPCRV\u00a0to engage and empower more youth volunteers across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":48831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[343,96,2727,1656],"class_list":["post-48830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-smart-communications","tag-technology","tag-technology-adaption","tag-technology-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48830","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=48830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}