On Sunday morning, a fire broke out in the slum of Tondo in Manila, Philippines. Around 1,000 houses were destroyed in the blaze. Manila's mayor Honey Lacuna-Pangan had the affected area declared ...

25 (UPI) --A large fire swept through a shanty town near the port area of Manila in the Philippines on Sunday night, destroying about 1,000 homes and leaving more than 8,000 people homeless.

A woman who was seen eerily crawling out of a storm drain in the Philippines has been found and got help from the government – her sad plight setting off a conversation about urban homelessness in one ...

(Credit: Roy Lagarde/CBCP News.) Listen MANILA, Philippines – Dozens of homeless persons and relatives of Duterte drug war victims gathered in Manila to celebrate Palm Sunday, April 13 ...

The sight of an elderly person begging for alms has become more common in Manila’s streets. It’s not clear how many elderly are homeless ... While the Philippines has in recent years become ...

Many of the Philippines' poor live in slums or on the streets - Copyright AFP Yasin AKGUL Many of the Philippines' poor live in slums or on the streets - Copyright ...

MANILA, Philippines — Like thousands of homeless people in the Philippine capital Manila, Maricel Abawag and her son used to sleep on flattened cardboard boxes laid out on footpaths. Then they ...