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 ...
Darwin Ramos, a Filipino former street child who died in 2012 due to a serious degenerative disease, is on his way to sainthood. Pope Francis declared Darwin "Servant of God," giving the Diocese of ...
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 ...
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 ...