“Hunger is a reality in the Philippines. “People have been doing it for so long, it has been embedded in the subculture of the slums that eating pagpag is OK. Without the government ...

A boy is seen with his charred home after a fire at a slum area in Manila, the Philippines, Jan. 16, 2025. (Xinhua/Rouelle ...

Many of the slum dwellers cannot afford to buy even a tenth of what the rich have. When I asked one of the informal settlers about the decorations of the rich, the answer surprised me. He said that ...

A massive fire tore through a shanty town and left thousands homeless in the Philippines capital Manila. The blaze broke out in the slums of Isla Puting Bato - a squatter settlement that sits next ...

A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday ... are still investigating the cause of the fire disaster but blazes in Manila slums are often sparked by faulty ...

Firemen tackled a huge fire that ripped through hundreds of slum homes in the Philippine capital Manila on Sunday. Footage shows a Philippine Air Force helicopter dumping water over the raging ...

The words of a Japanese man in the slums in the Philippines also provided encouragement for Kumeta. “I want many people to learn that such a man exists here,” Kumeta quoted the man as saying.

BBC Reel: Bali's beautiful bamboo home Philippines country profile Mr Forlales' modular CUBO homes will be used to house the newcomers, before being extended to the slums at large. Mr Forlales ...