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 ...

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 ...

Half of Filipino families perceive themselves as poor, according to a survey from the Social Weather Survey published.

MANILA (Reuters) - One by one, Michelle Asinto's six children take the plate of rice doused in soy sauce and eat their share before passing it on. This is what a meal can look like in the slums around ...

Last month, tens of thousands of Filipinos took to the streets following a series of revelations that some of the country’s ...

For poor families in the Philippines, electrical bills are a huge burden. But an old soda bottle, filled with water and bleach, can be turned into... In Philippine Slums, Capturing Light In A Bottle ...

Too poor to afford fresh meat, street hawker Loida has come up with clever ways to make the dish monok tasty yet affordable to slum-dwellers. Tondo, Manila: In its simplest form, monok is an ...

When Nakaishi asked the children who were earning money from the dangerous rubbish heaps about their dreams for the future, they all wanted to become doctors or teachers. This experience prompted him ...