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Young Focus, Intl NGO Host for the Day
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Progress White Board @ Young Focus HQ outside Smoky Mtn.
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Slum breakdown in Manila - Tondo at the top is where Smoky Mountain is located
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Vision board from kids who live in Tondo - wow moments
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Vision board from kids who live in Tondo - wow moments
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Vision board from kids who live in Tondo - wow moments
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Tutoring room - Netherlands govt funded the computer room
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Downstairs library room at Young Focus - over 30 students come every day to use the facilities
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Sample of their books
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More books - really impressive collection
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Pictures of the kids that are tutored there
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Walking into Smoky Mountain, I'm given rubber boots to wear inside the facility
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My first view of where I'm to spend the day. The only road leading into the trash dump
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The "view" if you call it that as I'm walking inside the trash dump
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ALL garbage trucks from Metro Manila dump here - some on barges to have trash taken out to a deserted island. You can see kids inside the trucks scavenging
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The line of garbage trucks doesn't stop
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A fellow traveler and aid worker accompany me into the trash dump zone
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All of the Young Focus day care workers
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Smoky Mountain Day Care Center
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Two of the children just seemed to hang out this gate and look out all day
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If you can see the girl on the right has skin problems and a red eye, very common for children who live here and are exposed to so many toxic fumes
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Eyes that say 1,000 words
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Inside the day care, at least one child cried the whole time I was there, it was never quiet
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A food chart to try to show parents how to keep their children from being malnurished
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Filipino flag still waving high and proud in the middle of the Smoky Mountain trash dump in the Tondo slum of Manila, Philippines
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Piles of trash
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Plastics pulled for money, people can maybe make 75cents to $1 / day
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Two women sit outside their homes and talk - funny how that happens anywhere
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View of the houses (I don't like saying huts or shacks but infer the quality of the homes yourself)
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Piles of trash
