On Sunday morning, a fire broke out in the slum of Tondo in Manila, Philippines. Around 1,000 houses were destroyed in the blaze. Manila's mayor Honey Lacuna-Pangan had the affected area declared ...
There is a sense of community among them, and the apparent absence of Christmas decorations does not bother him. This photo, taken on March 18, 2020, shows a general view of a slum area along the ...
continued going to the Philippines at his own expense on 20 occasions over seven years, and he got to know more than 50 Japanese men living in poverty in slums in Manila. Some of them, including a ...
A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as flames billowed for nearly eight hours. Drone footage from the Manila ...
Isla Puting Bato sits in the district of Tondo, which is Manila’s largest slum area home to roughly 654,220 people. Many live in shabby shacks across densely packed streets near a busy ...
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“We can collect enough water to wash our hands, clean our dishes, flush the toilet – and one of us gets to shower,” she said, outside her home in Addition Hills, one of Manila’s most dangerous and ...
“We can collect enough water to wash our hands, clean our dishes, flush the toilet – and one of us gets to shower,” she said, outside her home in Addition Hills, one of Manila’s most dangerous and ...