Just finished watching the channel 4 programme with a heavy heart.
I has read about poverty in Manila, but the documentary spared no blows.
The school ckildren going to school in shifts was incredible.
No politicians were sticking their heads above the parapet, the architect who planned to build up to solve the problems of squalor should look to the UK where the same policy was tried in the 1960's and failed.
Basic infrastructure needs to be tackled first, and dare I say it, the catholic church.