MANILA, Philippines -- The ghetto called Aroma reeks of putrefying trash collected by its residents for recycling. Half-naked children with grimy faces play on muddy dirt roads lined by crumbling ...

A massive fire tore through a coastal shanty town in the Philippine capital on Sunday, leaving at least 2,000 families homeless as flames billowed for nearly eight hours. Drone footage from the Manila ...

In Bararangay Fort Bonifacio, an area of about 12,000 people, most of the garbage is either recycled or composted. These plastic sacks are a days worth of trash for the entire neighborhood. This is ...

Darwin Ramos, a Filipino former street child who died in 2012 due to a serious degenerative disease, is on his way to sainthood. Pope Francis declared Darwin "Servant of God," giving the Diocese of ...

Dubai: From the suffocating poverty of Manila’s slums to the dazzling lights of Dubai’s World Trade Center, Jenny Raet’s journey is nothing short of a miracle. As a six-year-old, she scavenged scraps ...