Density in Numbers

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Metropolitan Manila, comprised of 17 cities and municipalities and has an overall population of 12.8 Million and rising.

People all over the Philippines hoped for a better future, better education, and better life in general resulting this great density in this city. But in reality, the chances here of success is one in a thousand due to the job competition and “compadre” system which in popular in third world countries. Man power supply is at high numbers while the demand for work is just a handful.

It's either they get the night shifts or the high risk jobs. Due to the lack of protection of workers' welfare and rights, The Institute of Occupational Health and Safety Development (IOHSAD) deems construction as one of the deadliest industries for Filipino workers. Since they are paid less than minimum wage, some construction workers resort to living in makeshift houses on the site.

Population rate in the Philippines grows 889 969 Population growth this year and an estimate of 4,100 birth rates per day making complication greater due to lack or family planing and unemployment rates in the slums of Metro Manila.

Commuters rush through the flooded streets of the metro to catch the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) train on a work day during the rainy season. The combination of the rush hour, a late-afternoon thunderstorm, and heavy rainfall strikes fear in the hearts of civilians who do not wish to be stranded and trapped again in Makati City, Philippines, a business district that is notorious for hellish traffic.

Every year, fire accidents greatly affects people in the blighted area, forcing them to live in streets and resorting into petty crimes that affects the economy and tourism in Metro Manila.

At least Sundays are forgiving.

This is a part of Pasig river, 2016. Congested water ways caused by the blighted area. Uneducated about the things at will happen resulting in this unlivable environment

Reports have named the Philippines as Asia's fastest growing economy, however the housing shortage is still a big problem for many of the capital's poorest communities.

Slum areas are one best disease cultivating areas in Metro Manila, resulting in poor sanitary conditions and plague ridden children, harboring the infection across the area.