Living with the Dead
More and more Filipinos moving straight forward to Manila in search of gold. If they don’t have any place to go then they ended up “squatters”. Some squatters try to make a living by painting and cleaning gravestones and tombs. Others, like this family with pictures below, have found work outside the cemetery in casual labor. In the crowded sprawl of Manila, the living must compete for space with the dead.
“For years, Manila North Cemetery, a public graveyard in the center of the capital of 12 million people, has been a thriving community for those evicted from their homes or flocking from the provinces for better opportunities in the big city.
After being forced from their state lot beside the cemetery to make way for a new graveyard, Bernardino and her husband have converted her mother-in-law’s mausoleum into a home for their two sons, their wives and children.
Living conditions are basic but the residents manage some creature comforts. Clothes hang from lines strung among the makeshift shacks and television sets flicker in a few homes with electricity stolen from nearby power lines. by Reuters”
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