Month: May 2017

There comes the time when there are many typhoons in the Philippines. There are usually at least twenty typhoons per year there. But we’re moving forward. Not because we are afraid of accidents and because water in Navotas would flood streets and homes, but because our one month’s visa expired, and at the same time … Read more

Filipinos usually immediately associate the word ‘slum’ with crime. With a reason, of course. In these poorest and most marginalized parts of Manila, violence, shooting and drugs until recently were the number one problem. ‘Even here in front of our house you could get amphetamines for only 100 pesos (2 euro),’ we were recently  told by … Read more