PhilWeb Corporation

Company Name: PhilWeb Corporation

Company Owner: Rafael B. Ortigas (Chairman)

Company Address: 41/F One San Miguel Avenue Bldg., 1 San Miguel Avenue cor Shaw Blvd., Ortigas Center, Pasig City 1605, Philippines

Official Contact #: (632) 236-5577

Company Website: http://www.philweb.com.ph/

Company Facebook: https://mobile.facebook.com/PhilWebCorp/

Company E-mail: info@philweb.com.ph

Products/ Services: A very lucrative Internet café that offers PAGCOR casino games, BigGame Inc. (BGI) is a subsidiary of PhilWeb that operates e-Games Cafés. BGI owns and operates fifteen casinos. PhilWeb partnered with MegaSportsWorld (MSW) to offer sports betting via our network of e-Games cafés.

Corporate Social Responsibility:

The Company recognizes the importance of IT in the development of our country and that to be able

to raise experts in this field, the next generation workforce have to be exposed as early as possible. As such, the Company donated hundreds of computers, mostly to public schools, to train students in IT related subjects. To name a few recipients:

• Jose P. Laurel Sr. High School, Quezon City
• Manggahan Pasig Elementary School
• Santolan Pasig Elementary School
• Dela Paz Pasig Elementary School
• Baccuit La Union Elementary and National High School

Aside from schools, the Company also donated twenty (20) personal computers to the Makati City Jail (MCJ). This is to help the MCJ equip its inmates with relevant skills to ease their transition back to society and find jobs at the end of their prison terms. The MCJ has already set up livelihood programs such as jewelrymaking and cooking classes, and the addition of computer classes gives the inmates a chance to fill the high demand for computer-literacy in the workforce.

PhilWeb Foundation

PhilWeb Foundation recognizes that education can change lives, and thus is dedicated to its educational scholarship programs.

The Foundation awarded deserving students with scholarships to the University of the Philippines. These scholars have been provided their full tuition and living allowance. The scholarship is offered to deserving and qualified students who will take up IT-related courses such as BS Computer Science or BS Computer Engineering.

Typhoon Yolanda Relief Efforts

The month of November was a difficult time for the Philippines. Super typhoon “Yolanda” (international code name: “Haiyan”), with maximum gale force winds and strong torrential rains, devastated an already ravaged Visayas region that was recovering from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that occurred a month before. Tacloban was the area that sustained the most damage from what pundits have called “the strongest storm on record”. PhilWeb, along with many other Philippine companies, actively participated in relief efforts, beginning by using its budget for the traditionaL year-end Christmas party to purchase much needed medicine and medical equipment and donating these to survivors in Central Visayas through Operation Blessing.

Donations, in cash and kind (mostly food, drinking water, clothes and toiletries), were given freely. Employees raised money to purchase more medicine that was donated to survivors. Personal time was also set aside by employees to help sort, repack and move relief goods at the Alphaland-Balesin Island Club Hangar. The response was a success as everyone in PhilWeb did their own small part in helping ensure smooth and quick distribution of goods in hard-to-reach areas in Aklan, Capiz, Cebu, Leyte, Palawan and Samar. Together with the Alphaland Relief Operations Team, the PhilWeb Foundation was able to disburse 62 tons of relief goods to over 15,000 people affected by the typhoon.

Christmas Outreach Program
Another event PhilWeb participated in was the Christmas Outreach Program in Balesin Island. Last December, ten employees of the Company, representing different departments, joined forces with Alphaland Corporation personnel in packing Christmas ham and fruit baskets that were given away to residents of the local Balesin island community. The event started with a mass followed by a magic show and parlor games for the children in attendance. The children received an extra special treat in the form of loot bags, 300 of which were given away. PhilWeb employees interacted with the community by sharing a simple but delicious meal together and playing games with the children.