Manila

Payatas – 24 years on

Today marks 24 years since the devestating trashslide at the Payatas dumpsite in Manila, The Philippines. I’m currently digging through

The Philippine school year 2016-2017 started on June 13. Millions of school children are back in the classroom. The said

Today marks 15 years since the devastating trash slide in Manila, the Philippines. More than 250 died and hundreds got

The United Nations’ (UN) World Water Day is held on March 22 each year. Events are organized on or around

This entry is the last in the series this week about Star of Hope and their work in The Philippines.

After the success start with the school in Taytay in 1987, Star of Hope followed up with the start of

Rugby Boys” are often seen in the streets of Metro Manila. They are street children snorting “Rugby” a brand of

The Philippines is the rising tiger economy of Asia. But only the rich people are going up and up. The

Around the world millions of people lack access to safe drinking water. They spend hours fetching water from wells, streams

According to a new report the Philippines struggles to curb child labour. More than half of the country’s five million

The hard work continues. Working on some heart griping pictures from the Philippines among other things. But there will hopefully

I have been busy with various projects here and there. I left Manila about a week ago, and since then

Yesterday in a meeting with San Juan, Metro Manila mayor. Interesting meetinga and a great lady!

I have been to Manila in the Philippines many times. Metro Manila or National Capital Region has some 14 million

Yesterday we went to the east coast of Luzon, the largest island of the Philippines. It was hard work as