Happiness In The Face Of Poverty

WARNING: POST IS IMAGE HEAVY.

Recently, I was able to visit a slum area with my friends, and other leaders from our church. Since we had a car and were part of a rather large group, I had no qualms about bringing a DSLR (my dad’s since his is smaller and lighter than my DSLR). I also brought my rangefinder camera because shooting with film is fun.

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The area is located in Junction, Cainta. It lies at a very close proximity to Metrobank and UCPB at Imelda Avenue.

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The people there have very sad living conditions. The kids obviously don’t get enough attention and were excited by the prospect of having other people visiting their community. They were all very friendly and all vying for the visitors’ attention.

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