Feeding the children of Smoky Mountain & Happy Land
We spent the day in Tondo, a poverty stricken area of Metro Manila; really, the poorest of the poorest of the poor. We did two feedings for the children; one on Smoky Mountain, or Trash Mountain as it is called, an old garbage dump where about 150 families live. It rises high above the surrounding landscape and from the top you get an incredible view of the city and Manila harbor. But when you look around you see people in grinding poverty, eking out an existence in by scrounging through the trash. The other feeding was in Happy Land, a squatter area about a mile from Smoky Mountain where...
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