MANILA, Philippines — At least 2,000 families were left homeless after a massive fire tore through a slum area in Isla Puting Bato in Tondo, Manila on Sunday morning. According to the Office of ...

Tondo is Manila's biggest slum, home to over half a million people, many of them children. All of us in the team had been to some of the poorest corners of the earth, but Tondo was something else.

distributed food packs and cash as government assistance to families affected by the massive fire at Isla Puting Bato in Tondo, Manila. The blaze displaced at least 2,000 families from the slum ...