Manila People

Some More Shots of Manila

1. The five us finally reunited in Rizal Park, central Manila after various journeys and adventures. Front, from left, Kelsey, Kelly, Helen, and Kirsty.

2. The Manila fire department gets ready to head out on shift New Years Eve 2006. The guys told me that this was the worst night for fires in Manila as the poor in the slums started alot of fires. I know that some of these guys will probably die this year doing their job. I wish them all the best and I hope that God watches over them in thier task.

3. Dr. Rizal is the Phillipino most responsible for the countries liberation from four hundred years of Spanish oppression. He was a freedom fighter and a doctor who was executed for consipiring against the Spanish crown in 1896. On the one hunred and tenth anniversiry of his death this huge flag flew at half mast above his shrine in Rizal Park, a huge expanse of green that is Manilas answer to central park.

4-5 Just some pictures of some street children. They may not have ever touched a computer or seen an I-pod but they love a camera. Even in the depths of their poverty they still wanted their picture taken.