The Philippines’ Mole People Live in Freeway Tunnels
Andrew Fraser
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Dodgy taps, hotel sinks, mountain streams — LARQ's the most essential thing in my travel bag. https://bylarq.com/Andrew
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Massive shout-out to @sheannernavarro, @Spaaart, @RS, from @wethefvture for cooking this up with me.
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A home is traditionally defined as a sanctuary of safety, a place of light and stability where families build their futures. But beneath the concrete arteries of Manila, where traffic thunders above, a secret society of more than 300 people has carved a life out of a literal sewage tunnel. Some families have been here for decades, raising children who have spent their entire lives in the dark, breathing in the damp, stagnant air of a subterranean corridor made of plywood rooms and service ways
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Credit:
Host: Andrew Fraser
Co-Hosts: We The Future
Editor: Toms D. Luu
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What our fellow Filipinos living in tunnel homes are asking for is actually simple: a decent relocation site that can give them dignity and a genuine chance at a better life, with access to jobs, schools, better hospitals, and a real community, not the kind of relocation where they’re simply discarded and forgotten.
The Philippines’ Mole People Live in Freeway Tunnels
Andrew Fraser
489,598 views
Dodgy taps, hotel sinks, mountain streams — LARQ's the most essential thing in my travel bag. https://bylarq.com/Andrew
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Massive shout-out to @sheannernavarro, @Spaaart, @RS, from @wethefvture for cooking this up with me.
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A home is traditionally defined as a sanctuary of safety, a place of light and stability where families build their futures. But beneath the concrete arteries of Manila, where traffic thunders above, a secret society of more than 300 people has carved a life out of a literal sewage tunnel. Some families have been here for decades, raising children who have spent their entire lives in the dark, breathing in the damp, stagnant air of a subterranean corridor made of plywood rooms and service ways
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Credit:
Host: Andrew Fraser
Co-Hosts: We The Future
Editor: Toms D. Luu