Here are a couple of great videos about Tondo that aired on TV in London last week. Lynie, who led our tour is featured. You’ll recognize many shots from my pictures. And I promise, no more posts on Tondo awhile… Related posts: The Children of Tondo Lessons from Tondo Bidding...
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I’m having a hard time letting go of this experience, feeling that my sharing is still incomplete. I’m hoping that in doing one last post, I’ll feel like I did Tondo the justice it deserves. Over the last 24 hours I’ve been noticing the impact that Tondo had on me...
Picture from Rage.com Instead of engaging in my typical St. Patrick’s Day activity of beer drinking and social events, I had the opportunity to do something vastly different this year. I was invited to go on a tour with the Philippines Christian Foundation (PCF), an organization...
Today I was privileged to get a tour of the garbage dump Tondo, home of 1.5 million of Manila’s residents. It was one of the most humbling and disturbing experiences I’ve ever had and I still haven’t processed my experience enough to blog about it yet. For now, the...