“MATUWID NA DAAN SA SILID-ARALAN” PROJECT

 

PAGCOR, in cooperation with the Department of Education (DepED), has allocated a P1 billion funding for the construction of 1,000 classrooms nationwide. This is the first time in the history of PAGCOR that the agency has set aside such a huge amount for a single project.

 

The “Matuwid na Daan sa Silid-Aralan” project intends to address the perennial problem of the Philippine Education sector on classrooms shortage, which currently stands at 70,582 nationwide. The project is also PAGCOR’s way of helping the government in its campaign to improve the quality of education in the country.

 

Included in the P1 billion funding is PAGCOR’s P65 million funding assistance to DepED and Gawad Kalinga Foundation, Inc. for the construction of 100 learning centers in different communities nationwide.

 

Under the agreement, Gawad Kalinga will handle the construction of the classrooms, while DepED and the respective local government units will manage the facilities once the structures have been completed.

"PNOY BAYANIHAN" PROJECT

 

PAGCOR has partnered with the DepED, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) for the Pnoy Bayanihan project which aims to convert confiscated logs from illegal logging into school chairs.

 

It is estimated that the public school sector lacks at least 2.5 million chairs in 45,000 public elementary and high schools nationwide. The ultimate goal of the project is to end this backlog by 2013.

 

PAGCOR allotted an initial P100 million funding for the retrofitting of existing TESDA and DepEd facilities. It also financed the woodworking facilities established by TESDA in 10 sites nationwide.

 

To date, 6,096 armchairs have been donated to nine public schools in Butuan City in Agusan del Norte. Under the Pnoy Bayanihan project. The first school recipient of the project was the Ramon Magsaysay High School in Cubao, Quezon City which got 500 armchairs last year.

PAMASKONG HANDOG PROJECT

 

The Pamaskong Handog project is an annual Christmas gift-giving project of PAGCOR which is intended to bring joy to the less fortunate at Christmas time. Apart from giving individual gift packs to the beneficiaries, PAGCOR also grants the wish list of the charitable institutions that care after the Pamaskong Handog beneficiaries. Said wish list are utilized by the institutions in providing for the needs of their wards.

 

Since its inception in 2010, the Pamaskong Handog project has already touched the lives of thousands of less privileged Filipinos and marginalized sectors of society including orphans and abandoned children and elderly, adult and children cancer patients, persons with disability, sick and wounded soldiers and policemen, children and families who live in the streets, and cultural minorities, among others.

MEDICAL / DENTAL MISSIONS

 

PAGCOR reaches out to the indigent and impoverished by providing free medical and dental services via its medical missions.

 

These missions, which are mostly conducted in depressed areas and those battered by calamities, aim to bring government closer to its constituents by providing basic health services.

DISASTER / RELIEF OPERATIONS

 

In times of calamities, PAGCOR is always ready to give assistance through its outreach operations. Victims of disasters such as fires, typhoons and floods are provided relief goods, medicines and other items that are needed.

 

PAGCOR recently donated P2 million for the relief and rehabilitation efforts for the December 2011 Typhoon Sendong victims in Iligan and Cagayan De Oro. The state-owned gaming firm also immediately responded to the needs of hundreds of families affected by the January 5, 2012 landslide in Compostela Valley.

PAGCOR FEEDING PROGRAM

 

PAGCOR, in coordination with the Department of Social Welfare and Development and the Department of Education, developed the PAGCOR Feeding Program to supplement existing government feeding programs and help address the worsening malnutrition situation in the country.

 

Together with partner school-beneficiaries, the program provides balanced meals to undernourished children from targeted day-care centers and public elementary schools in selected areas.

SUPPORT TO THE KAPITBISIG SA ILOG PASIG

 

PAGCOR expressed support to the Kapit Bisig sa Ilog Pasig (KBPIP), a project spearheaded by the ABS-CBN Foundation, together with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the Pasig Rehabilitation Commission.

This project aims to rehabilitate and clean the Pasig River from 2009-2015, with the Estero de Paco as its pilot site.

CONVERSION OF USED SLOT MACHINE STANDS TO SCHOOL DESKS

 

PAGCOR also converts hundreds of its used slot machine stands into school desks which are being donated to different public schools that are in need of school chairs.

 

More than 400 two-seater and three-seater desks made out of these old slot machine stands have already been donated by PAGCOR to six public schools.