ASIN: B01HYWQDO8
Publisher: Alexis Schlegel
Pages: 234
When an Australian went to the streets of Manila, he came to see and feel what it is like to be the poorest of the poor in the Developing World, and to be one of their own. He had no money and soon lost his ATM card. He entered a vibrant social world. Many slept on cardboard. Some were vendors; and bicycle cab riders. Others were scavengers, collecting recyclables from rubbish and selling it; or food from garbage and cleaning and sharing it. Streets were frequented by prostitutes who showed that even in the most stigmatized, a goodness and beauty can be found. He descended to the depths of poverty, in which the beggars were his people. He loved them so much and the life; and Westerners and the well-off were the Other, whom he was able to observe from a different perspective, the other side. Poorest of the poor were a people stripped of honor but derisively, for the passers-by did not ...
