| Recently I attended a function in China and a friend told me
about the extreme poverty in a place that once housed thousands
of US service men and women in several wars. Clark AFB and Subic
Bay Naval Station in the Philippines were home to hundreds of thousands of US
citizens. When the bases closed shop and a nearby volcano
erupted in 1991, devastation consumed the lives of countless
locals left behind after years of dependency on US spending on
their island. The photos you see here were taken in a poverty
stricken area that was built down in the flood plane of a nearby
river because it is the only land available for homeless people
to live since it floods quickly and regularly. Total lack of any
sanitation facilities and raw sewage dumped daily into these
homeless peoples backyard makes this a guaranteed disaster. |
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