As part of SM’s goal to empower and extend sustainable assistance to the senior citizen members of the community, SM City Pampanga under the SM Cares organizes useful and practical activities like the Oldies but Techies.
In this age and time where technology has become more than a want but a need; a necessity to easily connect and interact with our loved ones and to share and receive memories through the social networks. For Senior Citizens to be able to maximize the opportunity that technology is offering, SM Pampanga have specially prepared an activity to teach the basics on how to operate top-of-the-line mobile phones from OPPO and Vivo, the leading camera phone brands enjoyed around the world.
Mobile experts Junel Tayag from the selfie expert mobile phone OPPO and Aldrin Ronquillo from the elegant and stylish mobile phone Vivo, gave basic tutorials on how to make the best out of mobile photography, the use of social applications like Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Viber and Skype that will surely turn our Senior Citizens to Senior Netizens to a more engaged in terms of social media.
SM City Pampanga Assistant Mall Manager Jerwin Jalandoni gave a warm welcome to the members of the senior citizens of the City of San Fernando and Municipality of Mexico. He said that “SM Supermalls has been doing its best to provide quality customer service to loyal patrons and customers. SM has become like a second home.” More than just offering quality merchandise and services, SM is dedicated in pioneering initiatives that will make everyone’s malling experience as pleasurable as possible and worthwhile for just about anyone who enter its doors. “Through the elderly program, SM shows that life does not slow down after retirement, it just gets better,” says Jalandoni. Other activities that SM promotes for the Senior Citizens are Zumba for a healthy lifestyle, provide trainings for livelihood program and casual employment.
Gracing the event is the Chairman on the Committee of Social Services of the City of San Fernando Councilor Noel Tulabut with City of San Fernando Office of Senior Citizen Affair (OSCA) President Juan Castro and Municipality of Mexico Office of Senior Citizen Affair (OSCA) Vice President Gilbert Sanchez.