MANILA – Housewife Hazel Atanacio, 37, lives with her husband and six children in a shack in the slums of Tondo, Manila, where the stench of rubbish mounds outside mixes with salty air from the sea.
Her kitchen, composed of two plastic tables, a stove and some cookware, is usually bare.
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