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 ...

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 ...

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

Fourth-grader Ella Araza sat on a tiny plastic box in her Manila slum home, trying to finish her homework before the afternoon sun sent temperatures soaring to unbearable levels. The Philippines shut ...

Nakaishi observed that all domestic waste was mostly discarded out of the window into the sea, turning plastic waste into sludge. Although the residents’ livelihood mainly depends on fishing, their ...

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 ...