MANILA, Philippines -- The ghetto called Aroma reeks of putrefying trash collected by its residents for recycling. Half-naked children with grimy faces play on muddy dirt roads lined by crumbling ...
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 ...
In Bararangay Fort Bonifacio, an area of about 12,000 people, most of the garbage is either recycled or composted. These plastic sacks are a days worth of trash for the entire neighborhood. This is ...
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From Manila’s slums to Dubai’s skyline: How Filipina entrepreneur Jenny Raet turned scraps into success
Dubai: From the suffocating poverty of Manila’s slums to the dazzling lights of Dubai’s World Trade Center, Jenny Raet’s journey is nothing short of a miracle. As a six-year-old, she scavenged scraps ...
Two hundred meters from my home is a community of informal settlers. Their houses, mostly made of flimsy materials, stand in stark contrast to those of people who live in posh subdivisions. The ...
THREE hundred homes were destroyed in a fire that tore through a slum in Manila, forcing residents to make dramatic escapes. A bare-chested man with a cigarette in his mouth, a Jesus statue in one ...
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