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Manila is one of the world’s most densely populated cities, as migrants from the countryside have poured in seeking better opportunities. On arrival, the majority find little work and nowhere to live except self-built communities. Some of these slums have developed inside public cemeteries. People sleep in haphazard shanties built on top of graves, or inside mausoleums. It’s free, but there are no basic services such as sanitation, electricity and clean water, let alone adequate shelter. Cemetery slums have existed here since the 1950s, and generations of families now live in Las pinas South of Manila, the oldest and largest cemetery in the city. An expansive 54 hectares (133 acres), it is home to an estimated 6,000 slum-dwellers from 800 families, as well as one million dead. Some of the community are caretakers, paid by relatives of the dead to maintain the graves; the fee can be as little as 600 pesos (£9) a year. Other residents own makeshift stores or work as masons, carving headstones for the 80-100 funerals that take place daily. A certain woman has been living with her husband and children in a teetering shanty above a stack of graves in Saint Joseph Cemetery at Las pinas since 1966. It is the kind of situation you might find yourself in if, like this woman, you’re poor, you have no job and you live in one of the world’s most notoriously crowded cities. “We keep the cemetery clean … The community has kept to itself,” she says. “Most people here don’t have an income, but we try and find odd jobs to make ends meet. We sell flowers to victims’ families, make headstones or build coffins.” Please subscribe in this channel for more video updates..