Gabay Guro and PayMaya tie up to provide financial accounts for teachers
It won’t be long before teachers using the Gabay Guro app will be able to open a PayMaya account through the app so they can use it 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. 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.
Gabay Guro, the flagship advocacy program for teachers of the PLDT-Smart Foundation, recently partnered with PayMaya for its super app for teachers. Gabay Guro is already a 12-year program spearheaded by the PLDT-Smart Foundation and PLDT Managers Club, Inc. It empowers teachers across the country through initiatives in seven key pillars. These include scholarships, teachers’ training, classroom donations, livelihood programs, connectivity & computerization, teachers’ tribute, and digital innovations.
Read my earlier post about Gabay Guro HERE.
While the Gabay Guro app is still under development it can already be accessed by early users. The app features include access to research materials, community-wide articles, rewards, as well as online lessons to help improve their teaching skills in the new normal.
Soon, teachers can also receive cash assistance, incentives, and loans designed for educators and even get additional livelihood opportunities in the e-commerce space through their PayMaya account within the Gabay Guro app.
On top of these features, the app will also offer other capabilities such as the ability to receive badges that can be converted into MVP Rewards, availing of promos and training sessions from Gabay Guro partners and mentors, and access to livelihood programs.
Enabling teachers with digital financial accounts and capabilities is just the latest way that PayMaya is empowering the education sector. At the same time, this mode of payment helps keep school personnel safe by eliminating risks of cash handling in light of the current public health situation.
These efforts are in response to the Department of Education’s 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.
PayMaya has, for some time now, been enabling over 50 educational institutions all over the country with cashless payments acceptance, allowing schools to conveniently accept tuition payments from parents in the comfort of their homes using an end-to-end digital payment solution such as PayMaya Checkout online payment gateway and the PayMaya One all-in-one Point of Sale (POS) device. Some of these educational institutions are the University of the Philippines, the Ateneo De Davao University (ADDU), La Salle Green Hills, 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.
It won’t be long before PayMaya’s cashless features are incorporated into the Gabay Guro app. When that happens, teachers will have yet another tool that will help them thrive under a new normal where they have had to retool themselves for digital education as well as cashless financial transactions.
