The street
people of Cubao all have different stories and reasons for being
on the street. Some are there due to abuse. Some have run away from
problems.
Many have no employment and have
ended up sleeping on the pavement,
some have moved in from the provinces looking for work. Others are there
because of laziness or drug and alcohol abuse.
All the time more and more children
are being born on the streets and beginning a lifestyle from which it
is so difficult to escape.
There are thousands and thousands
of street people in Manila and they are of all ages. If you walk around
at night you can see babies
a few months old right through to old people in their sixties and seventies
curled up on pieces of cardboard.
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