PAGCOR has assisted students and teachers from Pateros and Occidental Mindoro, releasing PHP8.5m grants to buy modern learning tools and new laboratory equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Philippines.-\u00a0The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (PAGCOR)\u00a0<\/strong>has\u00a0<\/strong>released PHP8.5m to assist students and teachers from Pateros and Occidental Mindoro. Pateros Mayor Miguel Ponce III received a cheque for PHP6m while OMSC director for external affairs and internationalisation Veronica Ferrer received PHP2.5m from the PAGCOR Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PAGCOR chair Andrea Domingo <\/strong>said: “With these grants, we hope that more students from public learning institutions will have a better fighting chance in life as we provide them with the tools needed in their education and personal advancement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We likewise hope that more teaching personnel will have better teaching aids that will improve the students\u2019 learning experience.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The city of Pateros hopes to purchase nearly 700 mobile tablets<\/strong>\u00a0for underprivileged high school students at Simplicio Manalo and Pateros National High School. Meanwhile, the Occidental Mindoro State College will use the money to repair and replace damaged laboratory equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite a\u00a0weak net income for the year 2021<\/a>, the regulator continues funding multi-purpose evacuation centres (MPECs) and a week ago it\u00a0inaugurated a centre located in Barangay Sta. Catalina<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PAGCOR has assisted students and teachers from Pateros and Occidental Mindoro, releasing PHP8.5m grants to buy modern learning tools and new laboratory equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"PAGCOR, the Philippine gaming regulator and operator, has allocated PHP8.5 million in grants to educational institutions in Pateros and Occidental Mindoro. These funds are designated for acquiring modern learning tools and repairing laboratory equipment, underscoring PAGCOR's social responsibility initiatives despite a reported weak net income in 2021.","focusai_entities":"PAGCOR, Miguel Ponce III, Veronica Ferrer, Andrea Domingo, Simplicio Manalo High School, Pateros National High School, Occidental Mindoro State College","focusai_location":"Philippines, Pateros, Occidental Mindoro, Barangay Sta. Catalina","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.75), regulator (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"PAGCOR Financial Impact?","query":"How might PAGCOR's reported weak net income in 2021 impact its future regulatory capacity or its ability to fund large-scale infrastructure projects and social initiatives?"},{"label":"Regulatory Mandate Evolution?","query":"Does PAGCOR's continued emphasis on social responsibility, despite financial headwinds, signal a shift in its core mandate or a strategic prioritization of public welfare over immediate revenue generation?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23876,16333],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-27157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-pagcor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27157"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27169,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27157\/revisions\/27169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}