Mon | 3.22.2021 | 6:40 PM

PAGCOR Chairman and CEO Andrea Domingo (2nd from left), President and COO Alfredo Lim (3rd from left) and Director Reynaldo Concordia (extreme left) turn over the state-run gaming firm’s initial P25 million grant to Catarman Municipal Mayor Francisco Rosales, Jr. (extreme right) for the construction of a P50 million evacuation center in Catarman, Northern Samar.

PAGCOR President and COO Alfredo Lim (3rd from left) officially awards the agency’s initial P13,950,000 grant to San Andres Municipal Administrator Ferdinand Lacbayo (2nd from right) for the construction of a Multi-Purpose Evacuation Center worth P27.9 million in Barangay Poblacion, San Andres, Quezon. With them in photo are (from left) PAGCOR Asst. VP for Community Relations and Services Ramon Stephen Villaflor, PAGCOR Office of the President Chief of Staff Atty. Alberto Regino, Jr. and San Andres Municipal Treasurer Mary Joan Rejano.

SINCE it launched the Multi-Purpose Evacuation Centers (MPECs) project in November 2020, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) has already released a total of P413,950,000 out of its P2 billion budget for the construction of typhoon-resilient evacuation centers around the country.

The released amount represents the first tranche of funding for identified project beneficiaries, most of which are localities that are in the direct path of typhoons

The latest to receive MPEC funding from PAGCOR were the municipalities of Catarman in Northern Samar and San Andres in Quezon Province. Catarman received an initial P25 million to commence the construction of an MPEC in the town.

Meanwhile, San Andres initially received P13,950,000 to commence the construction of its third PAGCOR-funded MPEC in Barangay Poblacion, amounting to P27.9 million.

PAGCOR Chairman and CEO Andrea Domingo and President and COO Alfredo Lim officially turned over the grants to Catarman Municipal Mayor Francisco Rosales, Jr. and San Andres Municipal Administrator Ferdinand Lacbayo at the agency’s Executive Office in Manila on March 16, 2021.

Apart from Catarman and San Andres, PAGCOR has also released the first tranche of funding for the MPECs in Tapaz, Capiz; Romblon; Zamboanga del Sur; Tagudin, Ilocos Sur; Tadian, Mountain Province; Legazpi City and Ligao in Albay; Ocampo, Tigaon, San Jose and Sagnay in Camarines Sur; and San Fernando and Floridablanca in Pampanga.

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