{"id":50214,"date":"2022-07-18T18:07:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T10:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=50214"},"modified":"2022-07-18T18:07:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T10:07:05","slug":"pldt-smart-foundation-unveils-extraordinary-manny-childrens-book-on-mvps-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2022\/07\/18\/pldt-smart-foundation-unveils-extraordinary-manny-childrens-book-on-mvps-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"PLDT-Smart Foundation unveils \u2018Extraordinary Manny\u2019 children\u2019s book on MVP\u2019s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PLDT-Smart Foundation (PSF), joined by companies and foundations under MVP Group Tulong Kapatid, has unveiled the children’s book \u2018Extraordinary Manny\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authored by Gian Lao and illustrated by Mark Andres, the book gives readers an insight into PLDT and Smart Chairman Manuel V Pangilinan\u2019s (MVP) life story. \u2018Extraordinary Manny\u2019 recounts MVP\u2019s challenges, discoveries, and victories in his journey to becoming the Extraordinary Leader he is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lao, who began working with MVP as his speech writer and is now his executive assistant, recalled his own discoveries about MVP while finishing this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhatever is extraordinary about MVP comes from these ordinary things. I hope that kids who read this book can recognize the extraordinary in the ordinary, and the ordinary in the extraordinary,\u201d shared Lao.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PLDT-Smart Foundation President Esther O. Santos, MVP, and “Extraordinary Manny” author Gian Lao\u00a0at the book launch which coincides with MVP’s birthday<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At the book launch held to coincide with MVP\u2019s birthday, family, friends and colleagues of MVP also looked back on their special moments with MVP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, all work that has been done and our accomplishments is not the work of just one man. It’s always a team effort,\u201d said MVP. \u201cThe story is not finished when you find success. The story is finished when you find success for everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur duty to be of service to others in PSF, along with other MVP-led foundations, is year-round, yet we make special efforts in July of each year because it is Corporate Social Responsibility Month. This is a month of giving, and we also celebrate our Chairman’s birthday–a tradition that naturally evolved owing to the generous character of MVP,\u201d said Esther O. Santos, PSF President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In partnership with the People Group of PLDT and Smart, PSF also launched an employee fundraising campaign that aims to deliver copies of \u2018Extraordinary Manny\u2019 to public schools nationwide. With support from First Pacific HK, PSF is releasing an initial 5,000 copies with the hope of reaching children all over the country and inspiring them to become extraordinary in their own way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authored by Gian Lao and illustrated by Mark Andres, the book gives readers an insight into PLDT and Smart Chairman Manuel V Pangilinan\u2019s (MVP) life story. \u2018Extraordinary Manny\u2019 recounts MVP\u2019s challenges, discoveries, and victories in his journey to becoming the Extraordinary Leader he is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":50215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[379,343],"class_list":["post-50214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-pldt","tag-smart-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50214","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=50214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}