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  • Portrait: Dulangan-Manobo Child. <br />
The Dulangan-Manobos of Mindanao are Indigenous peoples that can be found living in the mountain ranges of Sultan Kudarat, in South Cotabato. According to statistics, they number around 30,000. Most Dulangan Manobos live off from farming, root crops, maize/corn, and rice. Kulaman, Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, Philippines
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  • A village of indigenous people in Upper Magpet, North Cotabato, Mindanao, Philippines.<br />
This village was photographed at a time of a drought. Roads going up the village is hard, public transport is not commonly available, rebel groups also operate in the surrounding areas.
    Mindanao
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  • Young boys playing on a rooftop of one the one tenement housings.<br />
Along the port area of Manila, tenement housing buildings were built for urban settlers. Most of the settlers have come to Manila to find better economic opportunities. The densely populated district is Tondo.
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  • A group of children gather pieces of charcoal discards from the charcoal making site to sell.
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  • A boy scavenges for scrap  electronic devices to salvage copper wires at a former open field dumpsite near Sitio Damayan, in Tondo, Manila, Philippines.
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  • Young men are seen playing in Sitio Damayan, in Tondo, Manila, Phllippines.
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  • Manobo Dulangan children pounding rice grains, Kulaman, Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, Philippines.
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  • A dulangan Manobo farmer prepares his plot for rice planting. Kulaman, Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, Philippines.
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  • Child Workers at a Quarry site in Montalban, Province of Rizal, Philippines.
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  • A young boy works at an abandoned burnt out bar down area scavenging for gold. Mercury is commonly used here to separate gold from the raw ores. Diwalwal Gold Mine town, Davao del Norte, Mindanao, Philippines
    From the Child Labour Picture Project
  • Dusk.<br />
 view of an urban poor settlement community, Tondo, Manila,Philippines.
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  • A boy stands atop a pile of garbage overlooking a charcoal making community, and the Pasig River, Tondo, Manila, Philippines. August 2010/Photograph: Nana Buxani
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  • A woman with a bucket of water is seen walking along a concrete pathway, on her left is the polluted river that runs through Metro Manila, and on the right is a community of settlers populated by internal migrants coming mostly from the provinces outside of Manila. Most people who live here eke out a living from scavenging scraps of wood to make into charcoal, some work as garbage scavengers nearby a barge where garbage is dumped.
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  • A man working as a scavenger near Sitio Damayan, Tondo, Manila, Philippines, carry rubber tires to sell in a junk shop.
    Growing Slums
  • Portrait: From the Payatas picture project
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  • Mak Mak, 12 years old hammers raw ores, later, extracting gold using mercury. Mak and his family live in a remote village, up the mountains of Pantukan, Compostela Vally in Davao del Norte, Mindanao, Philippines. Going up and down the mountains can be treacherous as landslides can occurr during the rainy season.
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  • Most of the dumpsite workers live close to the mountains of trash. Many come from far flung provinces hoping for better income. Payatas Dumpsite, Quezon City, Philippines 1999.
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  • Kulaman is one of the municipalities within Sultan Kudarat, populated by Muslim, Christian Settlers and Indigenous Dulangan Manobos. Going up to Kulaman will take  3 hours going through a winding old logging, dusty  road built in the late 60s-70s. Kulaman is rich in timber wood, fertile lands, beautiful thick forest, but logging has also ravaged the mountains.
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  • Gold Mine workers of Diwalwal (Mt. Diwata), work almost 24 hours each day under extreme conditons inside the tunnels. Gold was discovered recently in this mountain, in 1983. Following the discovery, thousands of people flocked to the mountain, digging tunnels, and makeshift houses above ground. More than 60,000 people inhabit the area. Dynamite blasting is commonly used for clearing rocks. Cyanide and mercury are commonly used for extracting gold from the rocks after crushing thru the ballmills. Mt. Diwalwal, Davao del Norte, Mindanao, Philippines
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  • MAMERTO RAMOS (LEFT MOST), 8 YEARS OLD, AND RAYMAR MALALAG. 6 YEARS OLD SPEND THEIR TIME HELPING THEIR PARENTS IN THE CHARCOAL MAKING SITE, NEAR SMOKEY MOUNTAIN, MANILA'S DUMPSITE. MOST OF THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THESE AREAS ARE MIGRANTS FROM THE VISAYAS AND MINDANAO REGIONS. THEY COME TO MANILA HOPING TO FIND BETTER JOBS AND ECONOMIC LIVELIHOOD.  BOTH CHILDREN GO TO A NEARBY SCHOOL.
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  • DESPITE THE HEALTH AND SANITARY COSTS OF LIVING BESIDE THE CHARCOAL MAKING SITE, AND CLOSE TO MANILA'S SMOKEY MOUNTAIN DUMPSITE, FAMILIES HERE DREAM THAT SOMEDAY THE GOVERNMENT WILL AWARD THIS PIECE OF LAND TO THEM.  AS ONE OF THE VILLAGE LEADERS SAYS, THIS IS THEIR ONLY MEANS OF INCOME.
    From the Book: This Day of Change
  • RAYMAR MALALAG, 6 YEARS OLD, LIVES NEARBY WHERE HIS FATHER WORKS IN THE "ULINGAN" (A CHARCOAL MAKING SITE) NEAR SMOKEY MOUNTAIN, MANILA'S GARBAGE DUMPSITE.  THEY ARE 3 SIBLINGS.  RAYMAR GOES TO A SCHOOL ALSO NEAR WHERE HE LIVES. MOST OF THE PEOPLE WORKING IN THE "ULINGAN" ARE MIGRANTS FROM DIFFERENT PROVINCES OUTSIDE METRO MANILA. THEY COME TO MANILA HOPING TO GET JOBS OR FIND BETTER ECONOMIC PROSPECTS IN THE BIG CITY.
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  • Children playing along the corridor.<br />
There are several tenement housing for urban poor settlers that were built in the 80s towards the 90s. The tenement housing line the streets going to the port area in Manila. When you go inside, it is dark, some of the stairs are missing, garbage can be seen dumped between one side in one of the buildings. From the top, you can see the old, now closed infamous Smokey Mountain, now covered with grass.
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