Among Authorized Agent Corporations (AACs) that are playing the Small Town Lottery (STL) of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), the Batangas Enhanced Technology Systems Inc. (BETS) has been consistently posting the highest remittances or Presumptive Monthly Retail Receipt (PMRR).
BETS is also one of the AACs that never misses in its PMRR remittances.
Due to its record performance, BETS, along with the citizens of Batangas who patronize the game, has been providing P800,000 monthly charity fund to the PCSO Branch Office in Batangas to help patients seeking financial assistance for hospitalization, chemotherapy, radiation or dialysis sessions, transplant or implant, and other medical services under the Individual Medical Assistance Program, the flagship project of PCSO.
We can also give the same positive review for Suncove Corp.-STL in Pampanga and Lake Tahoe Gaming and Amusement Corp. of Angeles City who are both working hard to help PCSO raise funds to help indigents or the poor who need medical services, especially under the “malasakit” program of President Rodrigo Duterte.
Of course, the success of BETS is not possible without the support of the citizenry, local government units and law-enforcement agencies like the Philippine National Police and the National Bureau of Investigation, including the military.
If memory serves me right, BETS has more or less 15,000 employees, the majority of whom are former jueteng cobradores and rebisadores. These people switched to the PCSO legal games with the help of BETS management. Unlike during their “jueteng days,” BETS employees now enjoy peace of mind. That’s because the police are no longer going after them when they are on the streets collecting STL bets from citizens.
Most of the employees working for BETS are those who didn’t pass muster at regular job fairs because they either lack education or are low-skilled. Some of them, by the way, are differently abled but proud employees.
At present, they are earning up to P8,000 a month, receiving benefits from the corporation, aside from the incentives they get when their clients or customers win in the lottery.
BETS, like the other AAC-STLs, conducts three draws per day under the supervision of the PCSO Branch Office. STL draws are being conducted at draw courts where there are machines and selected people or known personality who have the integrity to ensure fair STL draws, unlike jueteng draws that are being conducted in undisclosed locations.
What sets BETS apart from the rest is the fact that it has its own charity program called “Anak Kalusugan,” which conducts medical and dental missions for the poorest of the poor.
Anak Kalusugan plans to go around the country to extend charity and medical services to those in need.
BETS employees who established Anak Kalusugan are true philanthropists who are worthy of emulation.
“We will give back the blessings we received from STL to our countrymen who are in need through charity under the Anak Kalusugan, not just in Batangas but all over the country,” they said.