Poverty: daily staple of Philippine society

By Gemma Tulud Cruz

MANILA, Philippines — Run-down houses … dusty roads … travel by boat to the next barangay … intermittent power cutoffs …These are the sights that greeted me when I visited home for a short “re-connection” to the country where I was born.

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