10 thousand people are living with the dead in Manila

Cemeteries in Manila visitors may be surprised to their appearance in their first visit, as similar to each small villages يعمها the noise reverse tranquility enjoyed by public cemeteries.

Shrines turned into stores that sell canned sardines, pasta and candy, candles and other essential items, and even prepaid cards for mobile phones, are also distributed among the graves unlicensed restaurants sell snacks and drinks. All of these services are not available for visitors to the graves, but it is for thousands of people in Manila who had taken shelter graves always them.

The largest cemetery of the Philippine capital, "North Cemetery", today turned into a small village with a population of 10 thousand people. Cemeteries residents lived there for several generations, most of them displaced from the countryside to the city and who were unable to pay rent a decent house in the capital.

In addition to their management for shops and restaurants المتوزعة in the cemetery large, earning population cemeteries a living by working in the funeral and carry coffins for 50 pesos (about $ 1.20 U.S.), and works big men in the repair and maintenance of cemeteries, while interested in women clean the tombs, and children collect plastic and metal scrap and other garbage, which eventually sold to factories for recycling, as some stints other professions such as tailoring and cosmetology education.

Despite the difficult circumstances that surround them, the population able to provide for their daily needs, including Entertainment, providing some shrines service watch TV and singing in the karaoke machine for five pesos.

Poor housing

Over the years, city officials have tried to move people to live outside the cemeteries, and provided them with housing, but many of these families preferred to return to their homes in ancient cemetery. Because they are, as they say prefer facilities available in the cemeteries on the meager housing provided by the government, Valodharhh buildings stronger and provide better protection for the population, which is closer to their workplaces.