Impoverished Filipinos forge a life among the tombstones


Laileah Cuetara fixing her laundry outside her makeshift house at Manila North Cemetery. - AFP

MANILA: In teeming Manila, where poverty runs deep and millions lack adequate shelter, some of the living have found refuge among the dead.

Laileah Cuetara's shanty sits atop a pair of raised tombs inside the Philippine capital's Manila North Cemetery, a sprawling 54-hectare public graveyard that is home to about 6,000 informal settlers and at least a million deceased Filipinos.

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