Baseco, the Manila City-owned 14-hectare lot by the harbor, has in the past years developed into a community, with about 6,000 urban poor families, who strive to survive as ambulant vendors, construction workers or through any possible opportunity where they can earn money - even to the extent of "donating" their kidney for P 10,000.
Having the chance to visit the place is a complete eye-opener for me. One will wonder how they can live in an environment like that.
The pictures are ok, but I live in Baseco, and the pictures do not show you nearly anything like the poverty that is really there...some families with just absolutely nothing at all, homes that flood and are infested with rats, no power, no running water, no sanitation - nothing is nothing
smitten
25-Sep-2007 13:51
Jesus tapdancing Christ, how did you survive coming out of Baseco?
Lawr
13-Feb-2007 16:38
These pics can win in you pulitzer... Or a nobel peace prize... for the realities of human suffering and poverty...