Despite its significant drop in revenue, PAGCOR has continued to contribute financially to the government and various communities. One of its projects includes the development of multi-purpose evacuation centers across the country.<\/p>\n
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Typhoons and volcanoes are just two of the natural disasters the Philippines faces, and they became the catalyst for PAGCOR\u2019s projects. A few months ago, it announced the construction of a center in Lemery in Batangas, designed to provide housing for families still recovering from the eruption of the Taal Volcano in 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
PAGCOR has also inaugurated the first evacuation center, located in Barangay San Gregorio in the province of Laguna. It offers housing, kitchens, storage facilities, and other options. The project cost around $900,000 to construct and is just one of the centers PAGCOR wants to build in 76 locations across the Philippines.<\/p>\n
By the time it\u2019s done, it will have spent around $63 million on the projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Philippines is working on getting rid of COVID-19 this year and still has some difficulty. As a result, the country\u2019s gaming industry will need at least four more years to return to where it was before the pandemic began. Daniel Cecilio, the licensing and regulatory group chief of Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (PAGCOR), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":223139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69069,62],"tags":[81913,13363,81920],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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