Manila: Editor's Note

In the place of a daily diary, our first day in Manila has been ably chronicled by three travellers in their posts describing the morning, when we arrived in Manila to the point we wandered around Quiapo, the afternoon, which we spent on a food tour of Binondo (Manila's Chinatown), and a reflection written at the end of the day. 

Operation STOM: Editor's Note

To adequately cover the parade route on the Dinagyang Festival weekend, travellers broke up into four smaller teams inspired by James Bond films- Skyfall, Thunderball, Octopussy and Moonraker. Tasked with recording the festival, team members filmed, photographed and interviewed the people and the things they encountered. Some of these encounters have been reproduced in the Operation STOM articles that follow, while still more are to be used in the making of our documentary.

Urban Poor: Editor's Note

For our journey to meet Iloilo's urban poor, we split up into three groups that would go to different sites accompanied by representatives from KADAMAY. At the end of our three separate journeys, we met up at a central point to discuss all that we had seen and experienced. The three articles that follow are the reports from the leaders of the three groups who were instructed to conduct interviews with members of the community at their respective sites.